Quotes by Jane Addams

Jane Addams

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?

Cities

Corporations

May

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

Cities

Littles

Poor

A wise man has told us that “men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.”

Believe

Men

Wise

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Moral

Responsibility

Should Have

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Code Of Ethics

Expression

Hull House

America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Children

Education

Future

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

Dark

Hull House

Rooms

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Community

Democracy

Humble

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.

Acceptance

Giving

Taken

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Democracy

Tests

Wells

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Acceptance

Affection

Age

Alive

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Attitude

Believe

Boys

Character

Charity

Children

Christianity

Cities

Class

Code Of Ethics

Community

Competition

Conviction

Corporations

Country

Dark

Democracy

Desire

Differences

Dignity

Dinner

Diversity

Doe

Dream

Dupes

Ebb And Flow

Education

Effort

Emotional

Empathy

Expansion

Expression

Failing

Father

Fear

Feet

Forget

Future

Giving

Government

Growth

Habit

Hands

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Quotes by Jane Addams

Jane Addams

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?

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

A wise man has told us that “men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.”

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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