“A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.”

Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence

Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)

Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 64

Source: A Theology of Liberation (1971), p. 91

"Honest People Have Rights, Too" (8 February 1960).
Scientology Bulletins

Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 39

1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Context: Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau: "Improved means to an unimproved end". This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man. If we are to survive today, our moral and spiritual "lag" must be eliminated. Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the "without" of man's nature subjugates the "within", dark storm clouds begin to form in the world.

The Pathfinder (1998)

On Contradiction (1937)