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We mean the recognition of human right and human dignity in every man, of whatever race, color, degree of intellectual development, or even morality. * 4 ...from the love of equality, to the sense of a subordination founded on birth, titles, and fortune, is a species of corruption to mankind. * 5 Liberty: Give to every man the fruit of his own labor -- the labor of his hands and of his brain. Fraternity: Every man in the right is my brother. Equality: The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men. * 6 "But now, Master, you let your hair down and live in the middle of the great ocean, far from these gentlemen. I fear the world will sigh over you and criticize you. Your conduct is laughed at by the world and you have no way of achieving success: This indeed can be called shame and disgrace! You dwell in difficult conditions and your conduct is laughed at by the men of the world; I cannot believe that the Master can accept such a fate!" Thereupon Master Great Man sighed in a relaxed way and sent him the following answer, using the clouds [to carry his message]: "What can all that you have said mean? Now, a Great Man is of the same essence as Creation and was born with the universe itself. He freely floated in the world, reaching perfection with the tao. In accord with the successive transformations that take place he disperses himself or gathers himself together: He does not keep a constant form. * 7 Public conscience will always repel the man who asks for exclusive liberty, or forgets the rights of others; for exclusive liberty is but a privilege, and a liberty forgetful of other's rights is nothing better than treasons.... But there is in the heart of the honest man who speaks for all, and who, in speaking for all, sometimes seems to be speaking against himself, there is in that man power, a logical and moral superiority, which almost infallibly begets reciprocity. * 8 The principle of an equality of rights is clear and simple. Every man can understand it, and it is by understanding his rights that he learns his duties; for where the rights of men are equal, every man must finally see the necessity of protecting the rights of others as the most effectual security for his own. * 9 ...there is unity where there is community of pleasures and pains -- where all the citizens are glad or grieved on the same occasions of joy and sorrow... * 10 ...among the mutual duties the second place is given to this: that each esteem and treat the other as naturally his equal, that is, as a man just as much as himself. * 11 ...no one, who has not acquired a peculiar right, arrogate more to himself than the rest have, but permit others to enjoy the same right as himself. * 12 ...show respect to liberty, and your power will increase daily. Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. * 13 ...the citizens, by the social contract, are all equal... * 14 But I have three precious things which I prize and hold fast. The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others. With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honor. Now-a-days they give up gentleness and are all for being bold; economy, and are all for being liberal; the hindmost place, and seek only to be foremost;--of all which the end is death. Gentleness is sure to be victorious even in battle, and firmly to maintain its ground. Heaven will save its possessor, by his very gentleness protecting him. * 15 ...for all men are brothers... * 16 The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Liberty is a great lesson to learn. It is a great step to vindicate our own freedom. It is more, far more, to learn to leave others free, and free to do just what we perhaps may deem wholly wrong. We must recognize that others have consciences and judgment and rights as well as we, and religiously abstain from the effort to make them better by the use of any means to which we have no right to resort, and to which we cannot resort without abridging the great doctrine, the charter of all our liberties, the doctrine of Human Rights. Events : ---------------------------------- Equality -- Added : April 07, 2020 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/