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
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
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – Jane Addams
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau