Aids Quote by Jane Addams

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

— Jane Addams

“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

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

— Jane Addams

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

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

— Jane Addams

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

— Jane Addams

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

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

— Jane Addams

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

— Jane Addams

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

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