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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

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

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