It is the worst of all quaint and of all cheap ways of life that they bring us at last to the pinch of some humiliation.

::::We are condemned

Mary is embarrassed, because the people are bowing down to statues of her.

We mean are so weak. Our bodies betray even the noblest of us.

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all.

We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers easily lifted.

The condition of the low castes—it is painful to call them low castes—is not only unsatisfactory as this resolution says—it is so deeply deplorable that it constitutes a grave blot on our social arrangements... I think all fair-minded persons will have to admit that it is absolutely monstrous that a class of human beings, with bodies similar to our own, with brains that can think and with hearts that can feel, should be perpetually condemned to a low life of utter wretchedness, servitude, and mental and moral degradation, and that permanent barriers should be placed in their way so that it should be impossible for them ever to overcome them and improve their lot. This is deeply revolting to our sense of justice… How can we possibly realize our national aspirations, how can our country ever hope to take her place among the nations of the world, if we allow large numbers of our countrymen to remain sunk in ignorance, barbarism, and degradation?

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

It is definitely a century that hangs its head in shame. Our elders have been called impotent, and we are accused of being ‘limp’…

But peasant's pride is lordling's shame.

"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."

How embarrassing to be human.

Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!

The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.