By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the liberation of one is interconnected with the liberation of all, emphasizing collective upliftment.
Edwin Markham's quote speaks to the idea that individual freedom and progress are deeply intertwined with the freedom and progress of others. It posits that true advancement cannot be achieved in isolation; rather, in the journey towards higher states of existence and understanding, we must collectively elevate one another. This reflects a philosophy of interconnectedness and shared humanity, suggesting that we are all bound together in our struggles and triumphs.
In practice
During a speech on social justice.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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