The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held. Jane Addams More Quotes by Jane Addams More Quotes From Jane Addams Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. Jane Addams hull-househeartbreakingunemployment Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment. Jane Addams environmenthuman-naturehumans It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code. Jane Addams achievementsuccessfulgiving Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party. Jane Addams jailpartymen The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive. Jane Addams emotionalmenmoving The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful. Jane Addams irritationrealsuccessful Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. Jane Addams serenitydignityage A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. Jane Addams moralresponsibilityshould-have It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other. Jane Addams dinnerpovertymorality As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune. Jane Addams takenacceptancegiving If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. Jane Addams republicrightsmen A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations. Jane Addams poorcitieslittles The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. Jane Addams atheismreligiousorder A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? Jane Addams corporationscitiesmay I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself. Jane Addams moldteachingbelieve If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. Jane Addams social-unrestexpressionspiritual Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another. Jane Addams sufferingbelieveideas It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep. Jane Addams dupespurposepromise The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist. Jane Addams rebelelderlytasks The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels. Jane Addams rebelyouthtasks
