Jane Addams
A social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, she was a pioneer in social work and urban sociology, co-founding Hull House.
Quotes by Jane Addams
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more loving.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more wise.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more strong.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more free.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more happy.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more healthy.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more pure.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more holy.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more divine.
The Settlement is an effort to make the world more perfect.
In his own way each [person] was working out his destiny, and the process was as interesting as it was varied.
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
America's making of her new international relationships is the most significant thing in the world today.
The Settlement... 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.
We cannot change the essential dignity of man whom God created in His own image.
The things that make men happy are the same things that make children happy.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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.
The human mind cannot be a sound basis for government unless it is grounded in the welfare of the people.
Social progress is a question of learning to live together.