Jane Addams Quotes

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

[O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Jane Addams

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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

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

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

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
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