Heroes for a Better World

Jane Addams
(1860-1935)

American Social Reformer, Peace Activist
1931 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
National Women's Hall of Fame
Points of Light Foundation Extra Mile Honoree

birthdate: September 6
birthplace:
Cedarville Illinois

QUOTES

"Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that."

"I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process."

"We must also remember that peace has come to mean a larger thing. It is no longer merely absence of war, but the unfolding of life processes which are making for a common development. Peace is not merely something to hold congresses about and to discuss as an abstract dogma. It has come to be a rising tide of moral feeling, which is slowly engulfing all pride of conquest and making war impossible.

Under this new conception of peace it is perhaps natural that the first men to formulate it and give it international meaning should have been workingmen, who have always realized, however feebly and vaguely they may have expressed it, that it is they who in all ages have borne the heaviest burden of privation and suffering imposed on the world by the military spirit."

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.


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