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Jane Addams, an American sociologist, was born on September 6, 1860, and died on May 21, 1935. She was a pioneer in the American social reform movement, known for her focus on the impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. Addams was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and her work had a profound impact on improving social services and promoting social justice.

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“The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.”

Knows Men Way Book Belief Social Novel Conditions Preparation Entertaining Adjustment Popular Book Dealing With Life

Author:Jane Addams

“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”

Humans Wells Ideas Ends Social Common Democracy Journey Expression Source Drink Essentials Ethics Crowds Heat Human Experience Identification Draught

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

Self Age Individual Social Results Effort Situation Failing Pride Morality Demand Adjustment Individual Morality

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.”

Turns Social Common Standards Ethics Size Burden Mixing

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”

Should Wells War Order Left Social Numbers Clear Middle Subjects Position Habit Convinced Reform Temperament Social Reform Pacifist Small Numbers Middle Of The Road Unequivocal

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“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.”

Ends Problem Social Effort Cities Modern Conditions Solutions Aids Portions Confined Settlement Great Cities Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.”

Order Social Religious Atheism Tests Positive Atheism Supreme Commerce Prostitution Hideous Social Order

Author:Jane Addams

“No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.”

Men Has Beens Social Realizing He Man Structure Bottom Contact Social Structure

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.”

Spirit Desire Social Christ Poor Christianity Share Impulse Propaganda Social Service

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.”

People Years May Reason Used Certain Social Results Advantage Argument Population Discrimination Paradox Portions Withholding

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

Inspirational Reality Social Peace Process Results Progress Depends Secured Social Activism Hull House

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.”

Doe Social Moral Duty Depends Increase Charity Sensibility Philanthropy Philanthropic

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.”

Social Aspect Misery Unemployment Heartbreaking Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”

Ifs Spiritual Social Differences Expression Activity Mere Impulse Settlement Unrest Hull House Social Unrest

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

About the Author

Born: September 6, 1860
Died: May 21, 1935
Known for: Sociologist
Quotes: 96

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