The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.