Private Beneficence Is Totally Inadequate

We Are Thus Brought To A Conception Of Democracy Not Merely As A Sentiment Which Desires The Well-being Of All Men, Nor Yet As A Creed Which Believes In The Essential Dignity And Equality Of All Men, But As That Which Affords A Rule Of Living As Well As A Test Of Faith.

If The Meanest Man In The Republic Is Deprived Of His Rights,then Every Man In The Republic Is Deprived Of His Rights.

But The Paradox Is Here: When Cultivated People Do Stay Away From A Certain Portion Of The Population, When All Social Advantages Are Persistently Withheld, It May Be For Years, The Result Itself Is Pointed To As A Reason And Is Used As An Argument For The Continued Withholding.

Social Advance Depends Quite As Much Upon An Increase In Moral Sensibility As It Does Upon A Sense Of Duty.

It Is As Easy For Most Of Us To Keep From Stealing Our Dinners As It Is To Digest Them, And There Is Quite As Much Voluntary Morality Involved In One Process As The Other.