Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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.

Jane Addams

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

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.

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.

Jane Addams

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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.

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.

Jane Addams

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

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.

Jane Addams