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.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.