“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
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
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — 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… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this… — 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 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
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — 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
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
