How Shall Integrity Face Oppression?

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.

The World Is Shrinking Together; It Is Finding Itself Neighbor To Itself In Strange, Almost Magic Degree.

The World Still Wants To Ask That A Woman Primarily Be Pretty And If She Is Not, The Mob Pouts And Asks Querulously, 'what Else Are Women For?

It Is The Trained, Living Human Soul, Cultivated And Strengthened By Long Study And Thought, That Breathes The Real Breath Of Life Into Boys And Girls And Makes Them Human, Whether They Be Black Or White, Greek, Russian Or American.

All Men Cannot Go To College But Some Men Must; Every Isolated Group Or Nation Must Have Its Yeast, Must Have For The Talented Few Centers Of Training Where Men Are Not So Mystified And Befuddled By The Hard And Necessary Toil Of Earning A Living, As To Have No Aims Higher Than Their Bellies, And No God Greater Than Gold.