“Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.” HumansRealityFacesNamesTerribleBattleThreatAnticipationHuman Freedom Author:Robert Dale Owen
“The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."” ThinkingHumansHeartCountryFeelingsBattleDrivenAppealsBritainFollowersHuman HeartPersuasionPosterityInvasionIrresistibleThink Of YouBarbariansForefathersExtremityPower Of Persuasion Author:John Quincy Adams
“The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.” MenNeedsHumansSpeakGenerationsRevolutionBattleConversationLibraryCategoriesPakistanLaboratoryMy GenerationJavaBolivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.” HumansCharacterFoundForceBattleOffersGloryResistanceTemptationFree WillFierceAfflictionGrandeurOrdeals Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons