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Dyer Lum
7 quotes
“Established order, being an instituted fixity, excludes reform, and whoever advocates change by that very act becomes an enemy to it.”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wisest government is that which but responds readiest to the demand to which its own establishment had given birth, and for this reason will yield only as forced by fear to give something rather than risk losing all.”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is not the whole long career of the proletariat but the “Martyrdom of Man” strewn with whitened bones, cemented with scalding tears welling up from broken hearts, and stained with the bleeding feet of countless millions?”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To my mind, the very assumption of “natural rights” is at war with evolution.”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Social intercourse has slowly evolved the Ideal that peace, happiness and security are best attained by equal freedom to each and all; consequently, I can lay no claim in equity to a privilege, for that which all alike may enjoy ceases to be privileged. The important deduction from social evolution is that as militancy has weakened and industrialism widened its boundaries, liberty has ever tended toward such equalization, Privilege finds sanction in equity as right, because it violates the ideal of social progress — equality of opportunities.”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Precisely as water flows to a level when obstructions are removed, just so will social relations flow to equitable conditions when restrictions are swept away. And precisely also as liberty comes in does the assertion of “rights” go out.”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Events are the true schoolmasters, and smarting under the White terror which yearly sacrifices its millions the Social Revolutionist does not hesitate to invoke the Red terror, knowing that here the words apply that “he who loseth his life shall save it.” But how? By words of rodomontade? By inviting others to do by simply preaching the gospel of discontent? No; but by deeds. The Social Revolutionist is not moved by revenge nor by mere impulse. When Alexander II was killed, when Cavendish and Burke were sent to judgment, when John Brown shot men he had never before met, the world understood the full significance of each act.”
Dyer Lum (1839–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source