war 4
- The quarrelsome city mob, made cosmopolitan by its neighbours, may be what saves us from war
- People care less each day for the heroism of war and admire more that of labour and nurture
Jane Addams
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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What Jane Addams says most about
democracy 2
- Much of the maladministration of American cities may trace to survivals of military codes in their founding
- The cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy
government 2
- Bearing arms as the test of a voter seems no longer fitted to the modern city
- The government itself should have won the devotion immigrants gave to the labour union
immigration 2
- Formal patriotism teaching wrongly assumes immigrants' experience and traditions have no value
- The government itself should have won the devotion immigrants gave to the labour union