Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Social Critic
Social Reformer
Laura Jane Addams
Dzheyn Edems
Community
Collaboration
Common
Uncertain
Peace
Inequality
Good
Equality
Life
Unity
Secure
Incorporated
Inspiring
Precarious
Atheism
Secured
More quotes by Jane Addams
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.
Jane Addams
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
Jane Addams
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
Jane Addams
The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
Jane Addams
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
Jane Addams
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.
Jane Addams
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Jane Addams
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
Jane Addams
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
Jane Addams
In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah, it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.
Jane Addams
Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
Jane Addams
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.
Jane Addams
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
Jane Addams
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
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.
Jane Addams
The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
Jane Addams
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
Jane Addams
Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
Jane Addams
Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
Jane Addams
