What Jane Addams thinks about immigration
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. 1906, in their own words. Our reading of what Jane Addams has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingFormal patriotism teaching wrongly assumes immigrants' experience and traditions have no value
Their wordsWe also assume in our formal attempts to teach patriotism to him and to his children, that experience and traditions have no value, and that a new sentiment must be put into aliens by some external process.
↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book
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Their wordsThis devotion, this comradeship, and this fine esprit de corps should have been won by the Government itself from these newly arrived, scared, and untrained citizens.
↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book