"That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war."

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Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Jupiter Hammon

#War Quotes #White Quotes #Judging Quotes

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”
“We revel in the laxness of the path we take.”
“Once upon a time . . .â€ â€œIn the beginning was . . .â€ Thatâ€™s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wivesâ€™ tale blues riff begins with â€œWoke up this morninâ€™. . . .”
“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”
“Since this girl in front of him represented not a person, but again the image, or something desirable, the last thing we would expect him to want to do would be to personalize this person. . . . Chattering and flattering and entertaining, as if seen through a motion picture screen.”
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
“For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity. The saviors of modern man, the "scientists" who promise salvation through the "discoveries" of ethology and sociology, psychology and psychiatry, and all the other bogus religions, issue forth periodically, as if selected by some Messiah-of-the-Month Club.”

Source : "The Second Sin (Science and Scientism)". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.
“It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.”

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