I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.
Jane AddamsPrivate beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Jane AddamsWhen the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.
Jane AddamsIf the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
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 Addams