Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Jane Addams Quotes Click here for Jane Addams books Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy "Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans." "I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel." "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." "We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them." "With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!" "Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment." "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life." |
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