Jane Addams Quotes on Knowledge
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 knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.”
Democracy and Social Ethics (1902), ch. 1; cf. Al Smith -
“Democracy and Social Ethics (1902), ch. 1; cf. Al Smith”
The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy. -
“The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" ; this piece by Jane Addams was first published in 1892 and later appeared as chapter six of Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)”
These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. They have been shut off from the common labor by which they live which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coördination between thought and action. -
“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.”
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. -
“As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.”
In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.