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

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.