
"In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
To Die For The People
Address to the Tenth National Women's Rights Convention on Marriage and Divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860; as published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith.
"In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
To Die For The People
“Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” (2011)
“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”
Source: The Call of the Wild
Speech in Nottingham (18 October 1887) referring to the Mitchelstown Massacre, quoted in The Times (19 October 1887), p. 6.
1880s
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Context: The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed — and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. If the white over-estimates what he has done for the Negro without the law, the Negro may under-estimate what he is doing and can do for himself with the law.