112 Quotes by Jane Addams

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

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

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping... May we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?