So the child has an opportunity to be curious, and they have to discover for themselves. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
In my mind, prison became associated with love. Whenever I heard of a man who was or had been in prison, I felt my heart beating beneath my ribs. The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made.