So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.