“A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.”

— Jane Addams

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

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pioneer settlement social worker 1860–1935

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