Charlotte Bronte Quotes
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
Brontë, Charlotte. Shirley. Smith, Elder & Co., 1849.
This kind of ethical and moral commitment to others who are need distinguished Kasich from most Republicans of his time.
Normally, this would not be a particularly noteworthy quotation. However, at the time the Republican Party had shifted far to the right–more so than at any other time since its inception. The primary election he was in brought out the most right wing members of the party, which was for gutting the social safety net, did not see health care as a right, and even wanted to terminate Obamacare and Social Security as it existed. Yet when asked in a nationwide TV interview, what the government should do for the poor and destitute who could not afford health care or other necessities. His courageous answer and position doomed his bid for the presidential nomination.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
This quotation is one of the great metaphorical statements of social and political oratory. Then, and even today, most people who discuss the wealthy and their callousness towards the poor are accused of class warfare. Here Debs profoundly attacked the rich and their inaction in society without ever mentioning the wealthy in any way. There was no way of labeling this as an attack on anyone or class warfare.
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
