The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels. — Jane Addams Copy Share
“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.” — Jane Addams Copy Share
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. — Jane Addams Copy Share
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is… — Jane Addams Copy Share
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams Copy Share
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his… — Jane Addams Copy Share
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. — Jane Addams Copy Share
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as… — Jane Addams Copy Share
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young… — Jane Addams Copy Share
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. — Jane Addams Copy Share
If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely… — Jane Addams Copy Share
Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment. — Jane Addams Copy Share
