In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
![“Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... [They] are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply…” quote by Edward Alsworth Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/688/edward-alsworth-ross-51750_age_observe-immigrants-not-as-they-come-trav_3108388.jpg)