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[From the Reform Movement by Ssŭ-yü Têng] K'ang Yu-wei proposes a world government under which all national states and armies shall be abolished, while a universal language, calendar, and units of weight shall be used. The governors of the world government shall be elected by the world citizens. In the commonwealth, men and women shall be born free, equal, and independent.
Government | Men | Reform | World | Government |
Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze
Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings: this is the method of Tao.
Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze
Requite injury with kindness.
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals [animal food].
Abstinence | Man |
Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Calamity | Injustice | Injustice | Submission | Wrong | Calamity | Loss |
Mel Levine, formally Melvin D Levine
In general, kids have very little tolerance for humiliation or failure. One of a student's most important goals is to make it through the day without embarrassment. Imagine then, the frustration of children with differences in learning, who are at risk of growing up deprived of experiencing success. Naturally, they compare themselves to their peers and siblings. While some may see themselves as "different," many will feel inferior. Unfortunately, these feelings are likely to endure. When they do, serious complications can develop including plummeting self- esteem, behavior problems, excessive dependence on peers, alienation from family, deep anxiety, and a loss of motivation. The sad reality is that a difference in learning, not addressed as such, can lead to anti-social behavior, substance abuse, dropping out, and other serious forms of maladjustment.
Alienation | Behavior | Children | Day | Dependence | Feelings | Goals | Important | Little | Reality | Risk | Will | Loss |
Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL
The injury done to character is greater than can be estimated.
Lucretia Mott, fully Lucretia Coffin Mott
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
Dependence | Husband | Wife | Will |
Louis L'Amour, fully Louis Dearborn L'Amour
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
Lucretia Mott, fully Lucretia Coffin Mott
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Distinction | Education | Injustice | Injustice | Men |
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
Lucretia Mott, fully Lucretia Coffin Mott
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.
Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak.
Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
Dependence | Nature | Struggle |
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Age | Public | Retirement | Service |
Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears
Sense |