4 Jane Addams Quotes on Poverty

Jane Addams quotes on poverty

3. The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...

12. ... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...

13. Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

14. Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.