Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.