Jane Addams Quotes
Quotes
Activism“On the theory that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked back to that 'No-Man's Land' where character is formless but nevertheless settling into definite lines of future development, I begin this record with some impressions of my childhood.”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“Would it not provoke to ironic laughter that very nemesis which presides over the destinies of nations, if the most autocratic government yet remaining in civilization should succeed in utilizing for its own autocratic methods the youngest and most daring experiment in democratic government which the world has ever seen?”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ The Settlement House must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ 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 AddamsQuotes
Activism“ We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ 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. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ We realized that it is only the ardent spirits, the lovers of mankind, who can break down the suspicion and lack of understanding which have so long prevented the changes upon which international good order depend. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life. ”
Jane AddamsQuotes
Activism“ True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. ”
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