Jane Addams Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Numbers, Justice

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.164, Hayes Barton Press

• The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

  Jane Addams

  Justice, Diversity, Intellectual

  Jane Addams (1977). “On Education”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

• 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

  Ebb And Flow, Justice, Diversity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

  Jane Addams

  Journey, Government, Justice

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.253, Open Road Media

• What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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