Quotes from Gerry Spence

After black slavery, the worker, black and white, became the new slave who was left to fend for himself, to feed and educate his children, and to see to his own burial. At the beginning of the Industrial Age the workingman was transformed into another commodity, an item of energy that could be converted to money. Nothing has changed.

I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

Without argument the species would parish.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.