A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.
Jane AddamsOne's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
Jane AddamsSocial advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Jane AddamsPerhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.
Jane Addams