Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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

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

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.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

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.