The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

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

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

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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