Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — 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
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from… — 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
Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and… — Bill Ayers 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
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of… — 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
Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
