“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.” PeopleMenStillsSoulTodayEarthFallIndividualLeftStarsWalksKingsEqualMen And WomenBoundsGuidesPreacherEvidentFootprintMallsIndividual Freedom Author:Barack Obama
“The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.” MenArtPassionExistenceKingsDevilMen And WomenRelationLearGiotto Author:George Steiner
“No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.” KnowsMenShouldMayChildrenLittlesFacesDeathGirlBoysKingsMen And WomenCastlesGrimBoy And Girl Book:Under the Sunset: And Other Stories Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories
“The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.” MenBookGovernmentRunningWomenWorstKingsMen And WomenElectionBlindSacredCherishDestroyingAppointmentsDestroyersRobbersBlind FaithMormonism Author:John Andreas Widtsoe
“No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.” MenWellsKindTwoReasonEarthGirlBoysKingsMen And WomenAll ThingsAgreeDelightToysCrownsIndifferentMuseMonkeysSighDarlingWhimBoy And GirlSingularity Book:The Poems of Charles Churchill Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.” MenDeathMotherDifferencesSleepAcceptingClassStruggleKingsMen And WomenBreathingSpellsTwinsSheetsPatheticBeggarMajesticCastes Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories
“We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.” MenArtSoulSpiritNightStarsKingsDisciplineReflectionMen And WomenEuropeArmyDevotionHalfwayOne NightSpinningRisenCannonsFireworksChimneysMortificationHovering Author:Mark Helprin