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

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

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

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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

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.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.