The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or bea...st, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Destitution is the Muse of her genius,--Destitution and Death. I used to propose that her epitaph should be: "Here lies the angel ...of Death." And wonderfully as she varies and poetically repeats that image in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,--the grandeur of humility and privation, as thus: "The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority. For the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by un...belief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[R]eports to the Surgeon General ... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people... in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate--are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. Fo...r from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; i...t has now come to this that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without our suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, no...t part of the Redemption.... All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »