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
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – 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
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967