At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

The rich are always afraid.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.