Americas 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
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – 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
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams
How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. – Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, “The Walk,” 25 October 1967