Quote 1
Andrew Carnegie
Topic:
Social Darwinism
“While
the Law of Competition
may be hard for the individual, it
is best for the race. It insures
the survival of the fittest.”
Quote 2
Ida Tarbell
Topic:
Lynching
“For nearly 20 years crimes have been committed and
permitted by this Christian nation. Nowhere in the
civilized world save the United States of America do men,
possessing all civil and political power, go out in bands
of 50 to 5,000 to hunt down, shoot, hang or burn to
death a single individual, unarmed, and absolutely
powerless. Statistics show that nearly 100,000
American citizens have been lynched in the past 20
years. To our appeals for justice the stereotyped reply
has been the government could not interfere in a state
matter.”
Quote 3
William Jennings Bryan
Topic:
The Gold Standard
“You shall not press down upon
the brow of labor a crown of
thorns. You shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Quote 4
Booker T. Washington
Topic:
Racial Equality
“The wisest among my race understand
that the agitation of questions of social
equality is the extremist folly, and that
progress should be the result of severe
and constant struggle rather than of
artificial forcing.”
Quote 5
Emma Lazarus
Topic:
The New Immigrant
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be
free.”
Quote 6
Teddy Roosevelt
Topic:
The Square Deal
“When I say I believe in a square deal I do
not mean to give every man the best hand. If
the cards do not come to any man, or if they
do come, and he has not go the power to play
them, that is his affair. All I mean is that
there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.”
Quote 7
Upton Sinclair
Topic:
The Meat Inspection Act
“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by
accident I hit it in the stomach.”
Quote 8
W.E.B. Dubois
Topic:
Racial Equality
“The problem of the 20th Century is the
problem of the color line.”
Quote 9
John Muir
Topic:
Conservation
“Climb the mountains and get their good
tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you
as sunshine flows into trees. The wind
will blow their own freshness into you…
while care will drop off like autumn
leaves.”
Quote 10
Jane Addams
Topic:
Settlement Houses
“An unscrupulous contractor regards no
basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul,
no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement
room too small for his workroom as these
conditions imply low rental.”
Quote 11
Susan B. Anthony
Topic:
Women’s Suffrage
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male
citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we,
the whole people, who formed the Union.”
Quote 12
Eugene V. Debs
Topic:
Social Inequality
“Those who produce should have, but we know
that those who produce the most - that is,
those who work hardest, and at the most
difficult and most menial tasks, have the
least.”
Quote 13
Florence Kelley
Topic:
Women’s Labor
“The very fact that women now form about
one-fifth of the employees in manufacture and
commerce in this country has opened a vast
field of industrial legislation directly affecting
women as wage-earners.”
Quote 14
Billy Sunday
Topic:
Temperance Movement
“the saloon was “the sum of all villainies” and
the parent of crimes and the mother of sin. ”
Quote 15
Carry Nation
Topic:
Temperance Movement
“I felt invincible. My strength was that of a
giant. God was certainly standing by me. I
smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever
took a hatchet . ”
Quote 16
Robert La Follete
Topic:
Free Speech
“The principle of free speech is no new
doctrine born of the Constitution of the United
States. It is a heritage of English-speaking
peoples, which has been won by incalculable
sacrifice, and which they must preserve
so long as they hope to live as free men."
Quote 17
Woodrow Wilson
Topic:
New Freedom
“There
is no higher religion than
human service. To work for the
common good is the greatest
creed ."
Quote 18
William “Boss” Tweed
Topic:
Political Corruption
“I don't care who does the
electing, so long as I get to do
the nominating.”
Quote 19
Jacob Riis
Topic:
Urban Poverty
“The slum is the measure of
civilization."
Quote 20
Samuel Gomper
Topic:
Labor Movement
“What does labor want? We want more
schoolhouses and less jails; more books and
less arsenals; more learning and less vice;
more leisure and less greed; more justice and
less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities
to cultivate our better natures.”
Quote 21
William Graham Sumner
Topic:
Social Gospel
“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he
ought to be, according to the fitness and
tendency of things. Nature has set upon him
the process of decline and dissolution by which
she removes things which have survived their
usefulness.”