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• The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Song, Men

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!

  A. B. Simpson

  Country, Mistake, Moving

  A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

  Joel Salatin

  Roots, Oxygen, Ecosystems

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• Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.

  Patrick Geddes

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Solitude, Suggestions

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.415, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
  The cry of an applauding multitude,
  Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields
  The living mass as if he were its soul!

  William C. Bryant

  Soul, Oratory, Cry

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Flood Of Years”

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• Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

  Revolution, Ripe, Conscience

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• The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.211, Lexington Books

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• He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Doe, Benefits

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• The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

  Aristotle

  Taste, Beast, Mankind

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1731, Princeton University Press

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• What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Long, People, World

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• In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Triumph, Deliverance

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.10, Modern Library

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• The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Errors, Immense

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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• I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Done, Distribution Of Wealth

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• The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Intelligent, Abnormal

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.162, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Free Spirit, Weight

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• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

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• We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Breathing, Clay, May

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

  John Ruskin

  Tree, Sublime, Forests

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties”, p.51

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• It is the Mass the matters.

  Augustine Birrell

  Matter, Worship

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• How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Party, Government, Political

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.18, Vintage

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• History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

  Lillian Hellman

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Lillian Hellman (1944). “The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts”, New York : The Viking Press

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