“democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
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Famous Jane Addams Quotes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull House
Source: Twenty Years at Hull House
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
Source: Newer Ideals of Peace
“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.”
Source: The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness
Source: The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Newer Ideals of Peace
Source: Newer Ideals of Peace
“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
Source: Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
Source: The Jane Addams Reader
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: On Education
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
Source: Peace and Bread in Time of War
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.”
Source: Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace
“Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes