Quotes from Jane Addams

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.