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

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.

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

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

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.

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.