Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument – ourselves.
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
Without argument the species would parish.
In any nation in which people’s rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.
To bargain freedom for security is the devil’s bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave’s own power.
Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.