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Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Book by Jane Addams · 15 quotes · Hull House, Humans, Men

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“The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”