Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...

... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...

The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which mu…

The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which mu…

I am sternly opposed to giving alms to sturdy beggars.