Jane Addams Quotes

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Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. - Jane Addams quote.
Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.
— Jane Addams Democracy and Social Ethics

action

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. - Jane Addams quote.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams

morals

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. - Jane Addams quote.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams

civilization

Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. - Jane Addams quote.
Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
— Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House

unemployment

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. - Jane Addams quote.
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
— Jane Addams Newer Ideals of Peace

women

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 Addams quote.
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 Addams Democracy and Social Ethics

progress

The belief that if the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights, then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights, is the only patriotism. - Jane Addams quote.
The belief that if the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights, then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights, is the only patriotism.
— Jane Addams

rights

The city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is an enlarged housekeeping.  If American cities have failed...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 quote.
The city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is an enlarged housekeeping.  If American cities have failed...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

city