By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the liberation of one is interconnected with the liberation of all, emphasizing collective upliftment.
Edwin Markham's quote speaks to the idea that individual freedom and progress are deeply intertwined with the freedom and progress of others. It posits that true advancement cannot be achieved in isolation; rather, in the journey towards higher states of existence and understanding, we must collectively elevate one another. This reflects a philosophy of interconnectedness and shared humanity, suggesting that we are all bound together in our struggles and triumphs.
In practice
During a speech on social justice.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?
Democracy passes into despotism.
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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