America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and h….

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution..

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans..

I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast i….

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse..

The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though w….

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer..

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he i….

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral a….

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvatio….

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons..

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age..

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelli….

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is be….

When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the ch….

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itsel….

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment..

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher pol….

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only….

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has b….

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently wi….