>>20395691There are precisely two way in which man can revolt against unjust terms; Apathy or Violence. He can choose the former, but the later is forced upon him. They will go to the ends of the Earth to pull you back onto the plantation.
But you will not go.
>Yes, many lessons, and the foremost, I submit, is the principle of never giving power away. It is a common misapprehension that power is the ability to control others; every man secretly tells himself that his ultimate goal is freedom. For it would be a rare thing to approach any man, and having asked him if he wished more self determination over his life or less self determination, for him to reply that he would like less self determination.>It has even come to my attention that the presumptuous colonies to our West are attempting to codify this concept to a "right" they call "inalienable", and howsoever foolish their desire against our Commonwealth, they have perhaps by chance happened upon a universal truth.>The mythological representations of this principle are legion, but I shall only bring to your minds of the highest authority, that time when our Savior fasted upon the mountain and resisted the sophistries of The Devil. At the conclusion of their wordy commerce, the Devil had no choice but to ply his trade elsewhere; for it is the highest truth, demonstrated by the Son of God, that Satan has only as much power over a man as he is given by that man.>It is then the height of folly for any man to give power to Satan, or to a lesser creature such as a woman, creatures who have neither the physical power to do a man harm nor the will to do him good. Any acceding of self determination to these agents is no more than the wiling construction of one's own prison. How sad it is then, to hear the many cries of men as they struggle against their iron chains, chains they have forged themselves, surrounded by wall they have built, locked by a key given to another!