Jane Addams

“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”

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

“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”

“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”

“The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.”

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

“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.”