Hull House Quotes

• A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

  Jane Addams

  Passion, Opportunity, Joy

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

  Jane Addams

  Spiritual, Social Unrest, Expression

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Men, History

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• Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

  Jane Addams

  Inspirational, Peace, Reality

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.316, Basic Books

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• The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Effort, Problem

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.70, Hayes Barton Press

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• If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

  Jane Addams

  Country, People, Political

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.17, Basic Books

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• 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

  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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  Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

  Jane Addams

  Expression, Code Of Ethics, Action

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• 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

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• With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

  Jane Addams

  Mother, Children, Stupid

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.109, Open Road Media

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

  Alice Hamilton

  House, Hull, Disease

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

  Jane Addams

  Heartbreaking, Unemployment, Misery

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.119, Hayes Barton Press

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• It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

  Jane Addams

  Promise, Purpose, Dupes

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

  Jane Addams

  Hands, Significance, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

  Jane Addams

  Stay Strong, Peace, Giving Up

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• 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

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• Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Hands, Tools

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
  low rental.

  Jane Addams

  Dark, Rooms, Tenements

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

  Jane Addams

  Responsibility, Night, Wagon Wheels

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

  Jane Addams

  Philosophy, Boys, Race

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

  Jane Addams

  Blessing, Made, Refinement

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

  Jane Addams

  Dream, Men, Competition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,
  during his earlier years of a miller’s life.

  Jane Addams

  Father, Believe, Ambition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

  Jane Addams

  Pride, Hospitality, Buried

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.33, Basic Books

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