Democracy and Social Ethics
Jane Addams, 1902
Chicago's ward bosses delivered coal and funeral carriages while reformers delivered lectures. Addams asks what democracy actually requires of people who mean well.
Jane Addams
1860–1935
Addams won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman to do so, and gave much of the prize money to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Feels like unease, power and hope.
The bill for a corrupt city is addressed to everyone who lives in it.
We are all involved in this political corruption, and as members of the community stand indicted. This is the penalty of a democracy—that we are bound to move forward or retrograde together. None of us can stand aside; our feet are mired in the same soil, and our lungs breathe the same air. Books by Jane Addams
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