No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failure….

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be m….

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes….

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men..

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from ….

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment..

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of ….

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-decepti….

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple..

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited..

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels..

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for h….

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand..

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel..

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself..

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journ….

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air..

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the ….

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, b….

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of h….

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations..