Hull House Quotes:

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

- Jane Addams

source: Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.65, Courier Corporation

topic: Dark, Hull House, Rooms, Contractor, Tenements

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.

- Jane Addams

topic: Passion, Opportunity, Joy, Hull House

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

- Jane Addams

topic: Spiritual, Expression, Differences, Social Unrest, Hull House

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

- Jane Addams

topic: Believe, Men, History, Hull House

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

- Jane Addams

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Reality, Social Activism, Hull House

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 ...

- Jane Addams

topic: Cities, Effort, Problem, Great Cities, Hull House

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

- Jane Addams

topic: Country, People, Political, Democratic Country, Hull House

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

source: Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

topic: Inspiring, Peace, Equality, Social Equality, Social Change

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

- Jane Addams

source: Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

topic: Expression, Ethics, Action, Code Of Ethics, Hull House

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

- Jane Addams

topic: Numbers, Cities, Justice, Beneficence, Inadequate

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!

- Jane Addams

topic: Mother, Children, Stupid, Young Children, Hull House

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

- Jane Addams

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Character, Hypocrit, Immorality

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

- Alice Hamilton

source: Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

topic: House, Hull, Disease, Hull House

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

- Jane Addams

topic: Heartbreaking, Unemployment, Misery, Hull House

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...

- Jane Addams

topic: Promise, Purpose, Dupes, Hull House

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

- Jane Addams

source: Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

topic: Hands, Significance, Humans, Savagery, Hull House

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

- Jane Addams

topic: Peace, Motivation, Suicidal, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

- Jane Addams

topic: Ebb And Flow, Diversity, Justice, Hull House

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

- Jane Addams

topic: Responsibility, Night, Wagon Wheels, Hull 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.

- Jane Addams

topic: Philosophy, Boys, Race, Hull House

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

- Jane Addams

topic: Blessing, Made, Refinement, Hull House

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

- Jane Addams

topic: Dream, Men, Competition, Hull House

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.

- Jane Addams

source: Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.7, Courier Corporation

topic: Father, Believe, Ambition, Hull House

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

- Jane Addams

topic: Pride, Hospitality, Buried, False Pride, Hull House

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

- Bill Ayers

topic: Dream, Circles, House, Hull, Hull House