Jane Addams Quotes

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
• America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we…
• Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
• Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
• Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
• Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
• Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
• The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
• 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 a…
• A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and…
• Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is…
• Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
• I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day…
• The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type…
• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind,…
• Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
• National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.
• The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

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