Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
He acts against God's command ... From the standpoint of the Church,
which represents authority, this is essentially sin. From the standpoint
of man, however, this is the beginning of human freedom.
-- Erich Fromm
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human
history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts
to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he
sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a
million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build
a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and
resistance....
