Jane Addams Quotes on Equality
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[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.
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A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.
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The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.