Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Jane AddamsThe impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.
Jane AddamsThe good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane AddamsSocial advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
Jane AddamsWe have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
Jane Addams