National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

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.

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.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.