I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine...
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
Humanity is the Son of God.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.