Jane Addams

"I have come to believe … that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic f…"

"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."

"In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life."

"If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhap…"

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

"We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among…"

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

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