Quotes by Jane Addams

• Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
• Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
• Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
• America's 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.
• Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.