Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of Social Work, was a pionee...
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
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life. Jane Addams
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. Jane Addams
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. Jane Addams
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand. Jane Addams
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different. Jane Addams
The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations. Jane Addams
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. Jane Addams
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. Jane Addams
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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 Addams
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.
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. Jane Addams
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. Jane Addams
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
