Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
Herbert CrolyWomen ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.
Herbert CrolyAt first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
Herbert CrolySo long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.
Herbert Croly