As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble… — 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
All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
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 Image
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
