We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

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

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

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.