“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.” IfsWorldWayGivingMindWellsChildrenMadeSometimesSexWaterPoorStruggleHabitWalkingElementsIndependentMalesDareBelovedThrownAdamTrust MeWrecksInfancyBeloved Friends Author:Frances Wright
“Community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people. If you are financially independent, then you really don't depend on your neighbors for anything. You can just pay someone to do it.” PeopleIfsCommunityPoorPayRichDependsStrongerIndependentNeighborPoor PeopleRich PeopleWoven Author:Charles Eisenstein
“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?” IfsWorldGivingFirstsWarHomeAmericaPoorOpinionDemocracyBrokenSafeSpeechIndependentPressesFree SpeechBrutalUniformsAssemblyGangstersOutragedBroken UpFree PressOverbearing Author:Emma Goldman
“It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.” EasyPoorMoneyLordHavensTestsIndependentIndependenceSingersAfrican AmericanFamous InspirationalGospel Music Book:Movin' on Up Source: Movin' on Up
“I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall vividly the high level of culture, general and political, among first-generation working people during the Great Depression. Workers' education was lively and effective, union-based - mostly the vigorous rising labor movement, reviving from the ashes of the 1920s. I've often seen independent and impressive initiatives in working-class and poor and deprived communities today.” PeopleEnoughTodayPoliticalCultureCommunityPoorLaborIndependentInitiativeImpressiveLivelyGreat Depression Author:Noam Chomsky
“Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.” KnowsWantGivingLittlesTogetherFoundNamesWaitingPoorHavensOne DayRiversIndependentInconvenient Author:Truman Capote
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.” SaidStillsHumorLiteratureNaturePoorRichCryIndependentDeep ThoughtVaccines Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.” HumansImaginationPoorRaceTeachCreativeDiscoveryIndependentHuman RaceCreative Imagination Book:Essays in Science Source: Essays in Science
“I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.” WisdomFightingPoliticsPoorPartyClassPovertyEconomyProgressNewsIndependentInjusticeCorruptionSatisfiedReformWelfareLiberalismDevotedToleratePrivilegedPrintingPredatoryPlutocracyPublic Welfare Author:Joseph Pulitzer