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

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.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

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.

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

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

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.