For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

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

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.