The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Addams

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

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.

Jane Addams

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Jane Addams

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

Jane Addams

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Jane Addams

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

Jane Addams

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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.

Jane Addams

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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.

Jane Addams