Be A Rebel	1,588 Words	October, 2003
Description: An inspirational piece directed towards those still confined to the cruelty of compulsary schooling. Quote: "Life matters to us because we make it matter. Be a rebel."
Better World Is Possible, A	2,575 Words	November, 2004
Description: Some hope mixes with some reason, as memories and emotion start to create a belief system. Quote: "If a generation that cherished love and affectionately adored honesty were to create two gods, they would be pessimism and optimism."
Child Abuse And Damage	1,576 Words	February, 2002
Description: Scientific evidence and humane reasoning argues against the vindictive brutality of child abuse. Quote: "Science would confirm that such brutality is destructive."
Death Penalty, The	2,225 Words	December, 2001
Description: Arguments against Capital Punishment, based on the premise that unnecessary suffering and cruelty is immoral. Quote: "Who laughs when another cries? Who can honestly feel their heart warmed as another's is destroyed?"
Discourse on Liberty, A	2,027 Words	July, 2003
Description: An analytical look at the development of rights and liberty for oppressed groups. Quote: "...it is attacked by every dictator, scorned by every politician; it is held in animosity by the enemy of the people..."
Draft, The	824 Words	April, 2002
Description: Thoughts on the idea that the government can fight a war by subduing its own people into fighting. Quote: "To kill a man is one crime of itself. But to force a man to kill is an unspeakable atrocity."
Euthanasia	2,488 Words	April, 2003
Description: Paper discussing whether there is humane passion in opposing or supporting Euthanasia. Quote: "I believe in any person's right to suicide or Euthanasia, primarly because I believe in rights."
Feminism	1,894 Words	November, 2002
Description: Defense of the idea that women ought to be treated without discrimination or brutality. Quote: "Of all the greatest arguments against the equality of the sexes, none are as great as ignorance, deceit, and conviction in orthodox values."
Freethought Manifesto, The	6,230 Words	April, 2002
Description: A guide to clear-thinking in a age where political, religious, and social deception are at large. Quote: "History has been plagued with the tyrants who believed they were capable of controlling the main stream of thought. They would not allow changes in current."
Fuck This School	1,004 Words	May, 2003
Description: Interesting story of the shirt I wore to school and the real meaning of free speech in an oppressive government. Quote: "...can such a comparison, between a school and a Totalitarian nation, be justified? I think it can. In both situations, there is no real choice for any person who is subjected to the laws..."
Humanity	1,477 Words	March, 2002
Description: An inquiry into the nature of what causes a person to be humane and to sustain that ethic. Quote: "What are the methods that have drawn the sympathies, the affections, the passions from the mortal soul of individuals? Kindness, empathy, sincerity -- that is, to say, humanity..."
I Chose Not To Be Normal	280 Words	2001
Description: One of the original intros to this website and an all around decent piece from a revolutionary. Quote: "Be Normal: Exist, Consume, Obey. But I chose not to be normal. I decided that there was too much cruelty and dogma in this world to condemn my existence to silence."
Insurrection in Our Hearts	2,367 Words	March, 2004
Description: An examination into the ideas of truth and honesty in social situations, and how they compare with a political point of view. Quote: "We have become the tools of a culture that holds no reverence for goodness, kindness, truth, or justice. In this state, we have allowed our souls to decompose."
It Is Here	1,054 Words	March, 2003
Description: Narrative describing the poetry of revolution and the prose of thoughtfulness in mind. Quote: "What will they call it, when the seething emotions of despair and hopelessness rise to the top, and individuals start doing what they want, refusing and resisting at every cost?"
Life of a Child, The	1,039 Words	June, 2003
Description: Using passion in words to describe the prison of home, school, and church that are used to destroy any freedom in the soul of children. Quote: "A man will not afford the rights to his own child, that he would afford to any other man in the world. And it is this, which I regard as the greatest treachery of all history."
Marijuana: A Tribute	2,593 Words	January, 2007
Description: A tribute to the wonderful qualities of one of the earth's oldest plants. Quote: "Strange and foreign things are more likely to inspire fear than curiosity in adults. In our youngest years, the greatest fear we have is that we will not have enough time or energy to uncover every secret of the universe."
Need to Abolish Mandatory Schooling, The	1,565 Words	February, 2007
Description: Forced behavior can only result in a slave mentality and other accompanying social ills that are antagonistic to a genuine education. Quote: "Curriculum. You need to be somewhere at a set time. Either at the orders of an authority or a bell, everyone in one mass shifts to another position and another place to engage in a new activity."
Of Racism	2,589 Words	April, 2002
Description: Arguments against the reasoning of Racism, and the reasons that cause virtue in an individual considered. Quote: "Racism is blind inhumanity. Without caprice, it will throw responsibility onto that which no man can possibly be responsible for: race."
On General Humaneness	936 Words	September, 2002
Description: Piece discussing the value of humaneness towards your fellow man and creatures. Quote: "...I have seen hundreds of pictures of oppression and brutality, and almost always the oppressors have justified the action on some superstitious creed."
Open Dropout Letter	617 Words	November, 2002
Description: Letter sent to my high school administration when I had to tell them that I was dropping out. Quote: "Student of life's lessons; Teacher of humanity's ways."
Pacifism	1,925 Words	April, 2003
Description: Not only opposition to war, but opposition to violence and physical coercion is a humane objective. Quote: "My opposition to violence, to the use of physical brutality as a method to reach a conclusion, is based on my humane philosophy, and my love of every conscious being."
Reformer: My Blood	25,696 Words	May, 2002
Description: Memoirs from one man whose single aspiration was to reform and change society. Quote: "As reformers, we do not fear rejection of our ideas. The history of civilization has shown almost every populace to be ignoble and credulous."
Religious Freedom as Cultural Freedom	4,700 Words	December, 2006
Description: Examining the government's actions in restricting private behavior and its relationship to civil rights. Quote: "It cannot simply extend to those whose ideas and customs are religious; it must extend to all ideas and customs of the individual, so long as their behavior is not directed upon others."
Sexist Tragedy, The	1,216 Words	October, 2003
Description: Offering a defense of the idea of equality, and the ramifications that it has on the liberty of all when there is a slavery. Quote: "There are few crimes so painful, so utterly thoughtless and culturally supported, than that of Sexism."
This Day	724 Words	March, 2002
Description: An Atheist's take on a mother who sacrificed her own children to her god. Quote: "Nurturing them and giving them the outlook that there is no Satan to take their souls, no souls to take, is the best thing a mother can do."
This Is War	1,817 Words	March, 2002
Description: Description of the horror of a war, showing the political motives behind some wars. Quote: "Days no longer consisted of holding a reverence for beauty and sympathy -- they consisted in endlessly following the steps of death: avoiding being killed and slaughtering those of another political faction."
This Is What He Meant	978 Words	April, 2002
Description: A quote of Henry Stephens Salt on Humanitarianism is expanded upon. Quote: "When Henry Stephens Salt said this, over half a century ago, it was as powerful then as it is today. Salt meant that cruelty and brutality were to be done with, conquered by affection and understanding..."
Tribute to Goodness, A	463 Words	January, 2003
Description: Small piece on living a good life, written while I was a homeless squatter. Quote: "A Tribute to Goodness... and those friends I have met on the street, who gave to me the gifts of fairness and compassion, adventure and lust."
Virtue of Romanticism, The	1,588 Words	August, 2003
Description: Arguments for the instrumental meaning and purpose of being open and sincere. Quote: "Dreams keep me from forgetting how much I love them."
Whisper to a Friend, A	1,278 Words	June, 2003
Description: Reflections on a friend and what is meant by unity and strength. Quote: "I find myself with friends, always in circulation, but always left with the times we had together, those experiences that strengthened our comradery, our courage."
Will I Forget?	1,135 Words	May, 2002
Description: The question that every activist asks themselves about their own cause. Quote: "Religion has drowned the world in blood -- it was the source that men tapped when they needed aggression, it was the epitome of cruelty..."
Worth And Humanitarianism	1,875 Words	January, 2002
Description: An attempt to humanely and scientifically compose a meaning of a finite existence. Quote: "Every moment paused for a kiss, a touch of affection, is still a moment paused for the sake of brightening another's day..."