Subscribe to our newsletter. Quotations from Women Jane Addams America's future will be determined by the home and the school. Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people.
For ten years I have lived in a neighborhood which is by no means criminal, and yet during last October and November we were startled by seven murders within a radius of ten blocks. A little investigation of details and motives, the accident of a personal acquaintance with two of the criminals, made it not in the least difficult to trace the murders back to the influence of war. Simple people who read of carnage and bloodshed easily receive its suggestions. Habits of self-control which have been but slowly and imperfectly acquired quickly break down under the stress. Psychologists intimate that action is determined by the selection of the subject upon which the attention is habitually fixed.