Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.