...women were fighting for limited freedom, the vote and more education. I wanted all the freedom, all the opportunity, all the eq...uality there was in the world. I wanted to belong to the human race, not to a ladies' aid society to the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. ...Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the helpless cry of [the] lost women who are victims of centuries of wrong; it is the unspoken plea of thousands of women no...w standing on the brink of similar ruin; it is the silent appeal of the army of women in all lands who in shops and factories are demanding fair living and working conditions; it is the need to turn the energies of more favoured women to public service; it is the demand for a complete revision of women's legal, social, educational, and industrial status all along the line, which permits us no delay, no hesitation. The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. The pressing need spurs us on, the certainty of victory gives us daily inspiration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Connie, all my life I kept trying to go up in society where everything was legal, straight.... But the higher I go the crookeder i...t becomes. Where the hell does it end?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terri...ble one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have..., than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than ...forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most peo...ple in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Within the university ... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake o...f searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »