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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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.