Context: Many men, aware of the treatment I received at the hands of Walter Dawson, have asked me why I did not avenge the wrongs he inflicted on me. I am not aware that he did inflict wrong on me … I did some good through being blacklisted. It made me more than determined to perfect an organization that would render blacklisting impossible; it made me mayor of Scranton where I learned that we are all good and bad instead of good or bad. It taught me how to put myself in the place of the vilest, filthiest, lowest-down tramp that comes to me for help. It taught me when men were brought before me for trial how to pierce the veil between cause and effect, between motive and act; it enabled me to come down from the bench as a magistrate, a representative of the law, and before the bar of my own heart, and conscience, place the prisoner then before me on the bench in my stead.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Quoted in 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom, David Ross, 2006, p. 47
“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 18.
"Dinasty calls" http://www.economist.com/node/11328624?story_id=11328624, The Economist, 05-08-2008
“Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?”
Time, TIME: Man Of The Year, Walter, Isaacson, 1997-12-29 http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/grove/opener1.html,
1980s - 1990s
Imperfection http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21399/Imperfection
From the poems written in English
