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
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
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
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
Jane Addams
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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
If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong;
Jane Addams
... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...
Jane Addams
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
Jane Addams
We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race.
Jane Addams