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
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
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
When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result… — 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
The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not… — 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
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
It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge… — 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
