QUOTES
this
is an epoch of sudden changes and startling surprises. What may appear absurd
today will assume a serious aspect tomorrow.
The
uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of
equality.
The
uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of
equality. How does the condition of society reply to this standard for government?
Is there anything that even approaches to equality in any of the various phases
of life? I unhesitatingly answer, no! Look where we may...everything is made to
turn upon the rights of property, and nothing upon the rights of humanity."
“We
are plotting revolution! We will overthrow this bogus Republic and plant a government
of righteousness in its stead.”
"Hundreds,
thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the
streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold,
vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown."
"Good
care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums;
but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people
how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . .
. All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them
is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause."
"A
new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage
of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared
at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing,
it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . .
educational superiority."
"A
complete reform in Executive and Departmental conduct, by which the President
and the Secretaries of the United States, and the Governors and State officers,
shall be forced to recognize that they are the servants of the people, appointed
to attend to the business of the people, and not for the purpose of perpetuating
their official positions, or of securing the plunder of public trusts for the
enrichment of their political adherents and supporters."
"A
reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall
no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually
transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge
to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are."
It
is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous,
but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . . It is the struggling
masses who are the foundation ; and if the foundation be rotten or insecure, the
rest of the structure must eventually crumble."
