But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

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

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 failures and has suffered most.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.