American pacifist, Social worker and Founder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. 1860-1935 Popularity:
“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
“You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.”
“The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.”
