Just Think Of The Tragedy Of Teaching

Common Experience Shows How Much Rarer Is Moral Courage Than Physical Bravery. A Thousand Men Will March To The Mouth Of The Cannon Where One Man Will Dare Espouse An Unpopular Cause . . . True Courage And Manhood Come From The Consciousness Of The Right Attitude Toward The World, The Faith In One's Purpose, And The Sufficiency Of One's Own Approval As A Justification For One's Own Acts.

If Today You Can Take A Thing Like Evolution And Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Public School, Tomorrow You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Private Schools, And The Next Year You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It To The Hustings Or In The Church. At The Next Session You May Ban Books And Newspapers. Soon You May Set Catholic Against Protestant And Protestant Against Protestant, And Try To Foist Your Own Religion Upon The Minds Of Men.

Any One Who Thinks Is An Agnostic About Something, Otherwise He Must Believe That He Is Possessed Of All Knowledge. And The Proper Place For Such A Person Is In The Madhouse Or The Home For The Feeble-minded.

Religion Is Based On The Insistence That Over And Above All Is A Purpose And A Guiding Hand That Is Beneficent And Kind, And Would Not Leave A Hair Unnumbered Or Let A Sparrow Fall Unnoticed To The Ground. Those Who Cherish Such Hallucinations Forget That The All-loving Power Is Inflicting Tuberculosis, Cancer, Famine, And Pestilence On The Trusting, Simple Sons Of Men.

I Have Lived My Life, And I Have Fought My Battles, Not Against The Weak And The Poor - Anybody Can Do That - But Against Power, Against Injustice, Against Oppression, And I Have Asked No Odds From Them, And I Never Shall.