Quotes by Jane Addams

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
– Jane Addams
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
– Jane Addams
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
– Jane Addams
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
– Jane Addams
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
– Jane Addams