Ryan Quinlan's List: school

• It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
• There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

• powerless
• . Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded?
• Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.
• I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
• abuse
• half-witted
• timid
• as a lone woman with her silver spoons

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• what is it but a tradition
• It does
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• The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

• Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts — a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be 

  "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, 
   As his corse to the rampart we hurried; 
   Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot 
   O'er the grave where our hero we buried."(6)
• The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
• He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

  • Do you agree with this statement?  What is true?  or Why is this the case?
• How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also.

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