Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Choose equality.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The stro…

The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those w…

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.

The very mudsills of society:. We call them slaves:. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is ev…