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.

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by traveling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for each other, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

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

The blessings of civilization are not to be exclusively possessed by a few, but are to be shared by all.

The world has been slow to learn that the highest morality is to be had only at the cost of the freest thinking.

The world is not to be saved by a few great deeds, but by the daily fidelity of millions.

The dependence of the human spirit upon the human body is a fact which cannot be ignored.

The things that make men alike are more important than the things that make them different.

The Settlement, then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city.

The one thing that saves us from the horror of the world is the sense of its beauty.

The Settlement is an attempt to express the meaning of life in terms of life itself, in forms of activity.

The Settlement, in its inception, was a protest against the assumption that the poor are to be helped by the rich.

The Settlement is an effort to make social intercourse a reality.

The Settlement is an attempt to add the social function to democracy.

The Settlement is an effort to make the life of the poor more human.

The Settlement is an effort to bring the college-bred to the working-man.

The Settlement is an effort to make the city a more human place.

The Settlement is an effort to make the community a more intelligent place.

The Settlement is an effort to make the world a more peaceful place.