Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of Social Work, was a pionee...
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole. Jane Addams
Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand. Jane Addams
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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.
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.
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. Jane Addams
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
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.
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. Jane Addams
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. Jane Addams
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! Jane Addams
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. Jane Addams
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. Jane Addams
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. Jane Addams
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.