There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.