Quotes by Jane Addams

About Jane Addams:

Jane Addams is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. In 1889 she co-founded Hull House, and in 1920 she was a co-founder for the ACLU. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Jane Addams

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Jane Addams

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

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

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams

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

Jane Addams

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

Jane Addams

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameJane Addams
  • Descriptionpioneer settlement social worker
  • BornSeptember 6, 1860
  • DiedMay 21, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Philosopher; Writer; Sociologist
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; National Women's Hall Of Fame