What Jane Addams thinks about democracy
American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935); Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1931; author of Democracy and Social Ethics.
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2 dated positions, c. 1902 to c. 1906, in their own words. Our reading of what Jane Addams has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThey depended upon penalties, coercion, compulsion, remnants of military codes, to hold the community together; and it may be possible to trace much of the maladministration of our cities to these survivals, to the fact that our early democracy was a moral romanticism, rather than a well-grounded belief in social capacity and in the efficiency of the popular will.
↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book
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Their wordsNo attempt is made to reach a conclusion, nor to offer advice beyond the assumption that the cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy, but the quite unlooked-for result of the studies would seem to indicate that while the strain and perplexity of the situation is felt most keenly by the educated and self-conscious members of the community, the tentative and actual attempts at adjustment are largely coming through those who are simpler and less analytical.
↗Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book