Jane Addams

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

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

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

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

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

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

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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

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

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

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.

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

Americas future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach and how we live.

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