“This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfar...” — Henry A. Wallace Quote

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.