What Jane Addams thinks about war
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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4 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 readingThe quarrelsome city mob, made cosmopolitan by its neighbours, may be what saves us from war
Their wordsIt is possible that we shall be saved from warfare by the “fighting rabble” itself, by the “quarrelsome mob” turned into kindly citizens of the world through the pressure of a cosmopolitan neighborhood.
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Our readingPeople care less each day for the heroism of war and admire more that of labour and nurture
Their wordsWe care less each day for the heroism connected with warfare and destruction, and constantly admire more that which pertains to labor and the nourishing of human life.
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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.
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Their wordsIt is the military idea, resting content as it does with the passive results of order and discipline, which confesses a totally inadequate conception of the value and power of human life.
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