Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.
~ Richard Llewellyn
For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.
Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.
But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.This I was, and envying a kettle.
The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.
I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.
Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.
...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.
The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.
