Jane Addams Quotes on Justice
Jane Addams was an American social philosopher, reformer, and pacifist and the most influential American woman public intellectual of her generation. This page collects quotes attributed to Jane Addams on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all.”
Speech, Honolulu (1933), quoted in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, page 6, Inscribed in stone at the Chicago Public Library reading garden. -
Attributed to Jane Addams:
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious until secured for all.”
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“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”
As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374. -
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
Twenty Years at Hull-House(1910) | Ch. 1