“[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”

—  Jane Addams

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

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