I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of read more

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked read more

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn

Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir read more

Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man--
Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!
Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,
To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;
Resigns his native rights for meaner things,
For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.

If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind

If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over read more

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.