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Jane Addams quotes: Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Jane Addams quotes: A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

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

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

Jane Addams quotes: 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.

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.

Jane Addams quotes: The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Jane Addams quotes: Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

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

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

Jane Addams quotes: It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...

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

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

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

Jane Addams quotes: As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Jane Addams quotes: You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

Jane Addams quotes: One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

Jane Addams quotes: The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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

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

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

Jane Addams quotes: The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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

Jane Addams quotes: It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

Jane Addams quotes: Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Jane Addams quotes: Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

Jane Addams quotes: Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.

Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.

Jane Addams quotes: If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

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

Jane Addams quotes: Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams quotes: Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams quotes: The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Jane Addams quotes: The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Jane Addams quotes: Democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Jane Addams quotes: The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Addams quotes: A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Jane Addams quotes: Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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

Jane Addams quotes: Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Jane Addams quotes: Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Jane Addams quotes: The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Addams quotes: National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Jane Addams quotes: A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Jane Addams quotes: Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams quotes: 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.

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.

Jane Addams quotes: If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Jane Addams quotes: Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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

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

Jane Addams quotes: True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Jane Addams quotes: The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

Jane Addams quotes: Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

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

Jane Addams quotes: Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

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

Jane Addams quotes: The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

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