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

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.

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 impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

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

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