Now that the mistake of the past has been made, I think that the opportunity of the future is to really go out and to transform American society, and where else is there a better place than in the institution that should serve as the moral guardian of the community.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.