Jane Addams

Sociology American 1860 – 1935 98 quotes

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.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more wise.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more strong.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more free.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more happy.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more healthy.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more pure.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more holy.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more divine.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

The Settlement is an effort to make the world more perfect.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

In his own way each [person] was working out his destiny, and the process was as interesting as it was varied.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Democracy and Social Ethics 1902

America's making of her new international relationships is the most significant thing in the world today.

Speech 1919

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.

Hull-House Maps and Papers 1899

We cannot change the essential dignity of man whom God created in His own image.

Letter 1931

The things that make men happy are the same things that make children happy.

Interview 1920

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

Newer Ideals of Peace 1907

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.

Twenty Years at Hull-House 1911

The human mind cannot be a sound basis for government unless it is grounded in the welfare of the people.

Democracy and Social Ethics 1902

Social progress is a question of learning to live together.

Speech 1910