It Is Not From Top To Bottom

I Do Not Think That Any Sorrow Of Youth Or Manhood Equalled In Intensity Or Duration The Black And Hopeless Misery Which Followed The Wrench Of Transference From A Happy Home To A School.

As Man Is So Constituted That It Is Utterly Impossible For Him To Attain Happiness Save By Seeking The Happiness Of Others, So Does It Seem To Be Of The Nature Of Things That Individuals And Classes Can Obtain Their Own Just Rights Only By Struggling For The Rights Of Others.

What Would Happen To The Individual If All The Functions Of The Body Were Placed Under The Control Of The Consciousness Is What Would Happen To A Nation In Which All Individual Activities Were Directed By Government.

As Mazzini Said ... It Is Around The Standard Of Duty Rather Than Around The Standard Of Self-interest That Men Must Rally To Win The Rights Of Man. And Herein May We See The Deep Philosophy Of Him Who Bade Men Love Their Neighbors As Themselves. In That Spirit, And In No Other, Is The Power To Solve Social Problems And Carry Civilization Onward.

How Vainly Shall We Endeavor To Repress Crime By Our Barbarous Punishment Of The Poorer Class Of Criminals So Long As Children Are Reared In The Brutalizing Influences Of Poverty, So Long As The Bite Of Want Drives Men To Crime.