Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end,… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which,… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image