“Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)”

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

“Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.”

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”

“If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. ”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”