The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as….

The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditio….

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convic….

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation..

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage..

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social….

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one….

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend thems….

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural….

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves..

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself..

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty..

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world..

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics..

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitter….

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith..

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people..

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of tr….

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive..

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to ….