Addams, Jane

The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, September 1909-September 1929


• ... the task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebel...
Twenty Years at Hull-House


• ... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man’s ...
• With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to pe...
• ... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their po...
• ... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
• Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poore...
• If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that ver...
• I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything...
• The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial pro...
• We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common des...
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