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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Democracy Political Spring
The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit – to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Adversity Challenges Despair
The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Distance Light Star
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it’s as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Friendship Giving Happy Life
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Men Science Year
When you hear a person say, “I hate,” adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Class Hate Name
A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar … but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Belief Men Religious
I hate war… for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Hate Peace War
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Great Held Imagination Thing
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Depression Inspirational Teach
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

Actions Integrity Our Responsibility