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“The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.”

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James Freeman Clarke was an American Unitarian minister, philosopher, and author known for his works on ethics, philosophy, and religion. Born on April 4, 1810, in Littleton, Massachusetts, he passed away on June 8, 1888. more

“Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.”

Men World Has Beens Whole Body Earth Spirit Nations Brain Millions Magic Kings Army Conquer Helpless Beggar Chained Magic Powers

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.”

Humans Ideas Law Growth Approach Dawn Illegal New Ideas Brighter Newness

Author:Emma Goldman

“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”

Political Individual Violence Crime Bottom Injustice Organized Indignation Offenders Organized Crime

Author:Emma Goldman

“The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.”

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Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”

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Book:The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

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Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.”

Heart Matter Purpose Individual Sides Approach Contact Shock Dread Electric Both Sides Contention Electric Shock

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.”

Heart Hands Accepting Marriage Perfection Unhappy Gentleman Matrimony Tolerable Withered Hearts And Hands

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.”

Should Littles Book Taken Affair Possession Impulse Remarkable

Book:CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter

Source: CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter

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