It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. — 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
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
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
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the… — 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
![“We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth…” quote by Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/072/jane-addams-6111_add_we-have-learned-to-say-that-the-good-mus_1740252.jpg)
