In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.