Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. Jane Addams More Quotes by Jane Addams More Quotes From Jane Addams No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most. Jane Addams realizinghe-manmen Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air. Jane Addams airpeopleneeds Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. Jane Addams patriotismpatrioticreal This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. Jane Addams competitiondreammen Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. Jane Addams affectionexpansionintellectual What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history. Jane Addams issuesmenthinking We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having. Jane Addams democracyclasspeople You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! Jane Addams difficultyknowsmean That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. Jane Addams empathyablenumbers My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position. Jane Addams small-numberswarorder In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive. Jane Addams unitydifferencesvoice 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 diversityintellectualjustice We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens. Jane Addams sizemixingethics It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come. Jane Addams selfbelievepromise Keep friends close but keep enemies closer. Jane Addams enemy The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held. Jane Addams convictionprinciplesbelief Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. Jane Addams inspirationalpeacereality One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations. Jane Addams alivehumansrelation The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed. Jane Addams temptationwritingfather Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole. Jane Addams habitrules-and-regulationsmen
