Jane Addams Quotes

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

Life, Good, Until

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

Patriotism, Hope, Real

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

Attitude, Men, Respect

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

Home, Future, School

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams

Action, Ethics, Expression

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

Through, Social, Result

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

Women, Become, Longer

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

Essence, Exception, Immorality

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 6, 1860

Died: May 21, 1935

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