Jane Addams Hull House Quotations

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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

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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.