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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer. — Jane Addams

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

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

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

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

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

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