The Man Who Gives Me

The Equal Right Of All Men To The Use Of Land Is As Clear As Their Equal Right To Breathe The Air It Is A Right Proclaimed By The Fact Of Their Existence. For We Cannot Suppose That Some Men Have A Right To Be In This World, And Others No Right.

Compare Society To A Boat. Her Progress Through The Water Will Not Depend Upon The Exertion Of Her Crew, But Upon The Exertion Devoted To Propelling Her. This Will Be Lessened By Any Expenditure Of Force In Fighting Among Themselves, Or In Pulling In Different Directions.

No Person, I Think, Ever Saw A Herd Of Buffalo, Of Which A Few Were Fat And The Great Majority Lean. No Person Ever Saw A Flock Of Birds, Of Which Two Or Three Were Swimming In Grease, And The Others All Skin And Bone.

As Mazzini Said ... It Is Around The Standard Of Duty Rather Than Around The Standard Of Self-interest That Men Must Rally To Win The Rights Of Man. And Herein May We See The Deep Philosophy Of Him Who Bade Men Love Their Neighbors As Themselves. In That Spirit, And In No Other, Is The Power To Solve Social Problems And Carry Civilization Onward.

The Tolerance Of Wrong Dulls Our Sense Of Its Injustice. Men May Become Accustomed To Theft, Murder, Even To Slavery - That Sum Of All Villainies - So They See No Injustice In It, Yet That Which Is Unjust Is Unjust Still.