We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
— Edwin Markham
Famous Quotes
There is a destiny that makes us brothers:The soul of man is cast.
— Edwin Markham
Philosophy
I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To feel the passion of Eternity?
Down all the stretches of Hell to its last gulf More fraught with menace to the universe.
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; A protest that is also a prophecy.
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
— Edwin Markham
Social Justice
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands After the silence of the centuries?
The crest and crowning of all good, And travel downward to the dust of graves.