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.

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

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

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

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 lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.