Whatever I do, whichever way I turn, I can neither feed nor clothe my — George D. Herron

"All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most worthwhile to the common life and to himself."

"No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the worlds disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the worlds elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame."

"The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do."

"The only possible innocence that remains to me, while I pay forced tribute to the system, while I profit by its corrupting influences and agencies, while I bear my part in the culpable public ignorance and guilty moral apathy, is that of protest and exhaustless effort."

"If we stay at our posts, in order that we may change the system, we are on the backs of our brothers; if we desert our posts, in order that we may get off our brothers backs, we take bread from their mouths, from the mouths of their children, and add to the army of the workless and hopeless."

"Whoever says that a man can live the Christian life, while at the same time successfully participating in the present order of things, is either profound in the lack of knowledge, or else he deliberately lies."