If peace is to come, it must be peace within your own mind and heart. If hatred is to die, you must scotch it within yourself. If intelligence is to triumph, you must be intelligent. There is no other pathway, no other salvation.
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.
