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

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

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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

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?