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

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 their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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 being made to deport an entire political party.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

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