“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” MenGodChristianIndividualHeavenSocialChristianityRightsDutyOughtTyrannyResistanceDependenceResistingOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianSteadfastUs Founding FathersChristianity From Founding FathersChristian PatrioticDependence On God Author:John Hancock
“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingHumansDoeEnoughProblemLeftSocialDifficultJusticeChanceHuman BeingsCompassionComfortableTreatsSocial JusticeSelfishTyrannyResistancePityTrustedCoercionTolerableUnselfishnessDifficult Problems Author:Rose Macaulay
“all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.” MenMindBelieveHumansDoeStatesSocialGrowsMillionsPerceptionRelationTyrannyHuman MindState Of MindDespotsGullibilitySocial Relations Book:Human Work Source: Human Work
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin