I Insist That The Object Of All

...in Any Land, In Any Country Under Modern Free Competition, To Lay Any Class Of Weak And Despised People, Be They White, Black, Or Blue, At The Political Mercy Of Their Stronger, Richer, And More Resourceful Fellows, Is A Temptation Which Human Nature Seldom Has Withstood And Seldom Will Withstand.

I Refused To Teach Sunday School. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, My Last Rector, Died, I Flatly Refused Again To Join Any Church Or Sign Any Church Creed. From My 30th Year On I Have Increasingly Regarded The Church As An Institution Which Defended Such Evils As Slavery, Color Caste, Exploitation Of Labor And War.

What Do Nations Care About The Cost Of War, If By Spending A Few Hundred Millions In Steel And Gunpowder They Can Gain A Thousand Millions In Diamonds And Cocoa?

Honest And Earnest Criticism From Those Whose Interests Are Most Nearly Touched,- Criticism Of Writers By Readers, Of Government By Those Governed, Of Leaders By Those Led, - This Is The Soul Of Democracy And The Safeguard Of Modern Society

But Art Is Not Simply Works Of Art; It Is The Spirit That Knows Beauty, That Has Music In Its Soul And The Color Of Sunsets In Its Headkerchiefs; That Can Dance On A Flaming World And Make The World Dance, Too.