Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
Jane AddamsThe very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.
Jane AddamsI believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.
Jane AddamsSocial advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Jane Addams