
p. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=uvIQbop4cdsC&pg=PA1.
(1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
Context: In his essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote, "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.
p. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=uvIQbop4cdsC&pg=PA1.
(1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
Letter to the Advocates of Woman’s Suffrage (1870).
1870s
“Socialism, is in short a manifestation of mental illness or major character deficiency.”
"Are Socialists Psychos?" https://www.trevorloudon.com/2006/12/are-socialists-psychos/
The Ageless Wisdom, An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (1996)
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
"A Liberal Decalogue" http://www.panarchy.org/russell/decalogue.1951.html, from "The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism", New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951); later printed in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1969), vol. 3: 1944-1967, pp. 71-2
1950s
Context: The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 149.
"Letter to N.N.," quoted by Havelock Ellis in "The New Spirit" http://books.google.com/books?id=xCp6OIGcojMC& (1892) p. 226