#trodden

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#earth #feet #go #graves #guests

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#himself #makes #man #must #trodden

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality #rage-against-the-machine #revolution #equality

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

#conduct #drawn #ground #hereafter #i

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#britain #brought #fathers #fire #liberty

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#footprints #future #hand #i #i can

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man. ↗

— Albert Camus

#genuine #humanism #imagination

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#depths #explore #glories #go #into

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#christian #claimed #i #know #me