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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.  
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.  
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, ev...  
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but...  
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.  
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have ...  
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced m...  
If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!  
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is...  
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.   Politics
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents...  
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition,...  
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more...  
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to grow...  
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure me...  
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificia...  
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is ther...  
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it ...  
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and gener...   Education
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution...   Politics
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married coup...   Marriage
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will...  
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.  
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy nam...  
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan a...  
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward...  
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than t...  
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair...  
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for he...  
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who h...  
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.  
The most violent element in society is ignorance.  
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one an...  
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a du...  
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious al...  
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish th...  
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: ...  
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most con...  
When we can't dream any longer we die.