Jane Addams Quotes

Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7 : Personal Reactions During War http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Addams/pb7.html

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 2

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 17

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6

"The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/addams6.htm; this piece by Jane Addams was first published in 1892 and later appeared as chapter six of Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
Context: These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. They have been shut off from the common labor by which they live which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coördination between thought and action. I think it is hard for us to realize how seriously many of them are taking to the notion of human brotherhood, how eagerly they long to give tangible expression to the democratic ideal. These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that 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; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 1

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 8

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 16
Context: I have come to believe … that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. 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.

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 11

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 9

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 15

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 14

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 7

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 10

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 9

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 7

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 17

The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House (1930)

Speech, Honolulu (1933), quoted in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, page 6, Inscribed in stone at the Chicago Public Library reading garden.

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 9