Jane Addams Quotes
If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.
One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.
The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.
That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."
