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.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.