The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Tag: Ethics
You must not only aim right but draw…
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
Henry David Thoreau
Success without honor
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it wont taste good.
Joe Paterno
Truth and righteousness
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today?
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” July 5, 1852; Rochester, NY