Famous Quotes by Jane Addams
- ... the task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it... More
- ... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a... More
- With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to... More
- ... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their... More
- ... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ... More
- Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the... More
- If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that... More
- I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted... More
- The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial... More
- We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common... More
- ... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a... More
- We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our... More
- [The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of... More
- A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for... More
- I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon... More
- ... if the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference... More
- I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral... More
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