Best Hull House Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”

Men Dream Earth Waste Competition Productions Cease Pool Hull House

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

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

“If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.”

People Ifs Country Political Democracy Impossible Higher Mass Democratic Crave Political Life Democratic Country Hull House

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.”

Ifs Made Blessing Universal Permanent Associates Refinement Cultivation Hull House

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.”

Believe Self Purpose Easy Type Promise Great Things Preparation Deception Fallen Self Deception Dupes Hull House

Book:The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

Source: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”

Men Way Humans Hands Tools Significance Savagery Human Hands Hull House

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

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

“With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!”

World Children Made Young Mother Effort Modern Stupid Permit Educate Nurture Young Children Modern Society Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“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

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

Stills Pride Buried Hospitality Foreigners Poorest Hull House False Pride

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.”

Purpose Easy Promise Dupes Hull House

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

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

“Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.”

Dream House Answers Youth Demand Circles Range Founders Elegant Jane Dazzling Hull Hull House

Author:Bill Ayers

“An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.”

Dark Rooms Conditions Lows Regard Stable Foul Basements Contractor Tenements Hull House

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

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

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

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

“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”

Action Expression Ethics Dignity Mediums Sole Code Of Ethics Hull House

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

Self Character Virtue Honesty Morality Integrity Essence Tendencies Immortality Hypocrisy Exception Immoral Hypocrite Immorality Hypocrit Hull House

Author:Jane Addams

“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

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”

“I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.”

Men Believe Done Remember Chance History Legislature Railroads Hull House

Author:Jane Addams

“In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.”

May Moments Culture Justice Diversity Flow Social Justice Oppression Tides Barren Ebb And Flow Swelling Hull House

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

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

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

Culture Justice Deals Numbers Cities Diversity Social Justice Inadequate Beneficence Hull House

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

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

“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 opportunities are early attracted.”

Humans Joy Passion Opportunity Spots Enthusiasm Settlement Hull House

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

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

Humans Hands Significance Human Hands Hull House

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

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

“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”

Years Believe Wanted Father I Believe Ambition Consuming Thumbs Hull House

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

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

“I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.”

World Night Responsibility Wheels Wagons Hull House Wagon Wheels

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

“Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”

Humans Philosophy Happens Race Boys Foundation Idiot Human Race Solidarity Grounded Hull House

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

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

“It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.”

House Interest Disease Hull Hull House

Book:Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.

Source: Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.