Nobel Prize Winner 1931.
...Miss Addams and Miss Starr (click here) made speeches about the needs of the neighborhood, raised money, convinced young women of well-to-do families to help, took care of children, nursed the sick, listened to outpourings from troubled people. By its second year of existence, Hull-House was host to two thousand people every week. There were kindergarten classes in the morning, club meetings for older children in the afternoon, and for adults in the evening more clubs or courses in what became virtually a night school. The first facility added to Hull-House was an art gallery, the second a public kitchen; then came a coffee house, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a cooperative boarding club for girls, a book bindery, an art studio, a music school, a drama group, a circulating library, an employment bureau, a labor museum....
Jane Addams is an interesting study. She came from a family of means, yet she had to find strength within herself to overcome health challenges from a very young age. In growing into a woman she understood how unfair life could be. She was comfortable in life and never worried about her next meal, but, she had to reach beyond the normal experience of a young woman of such means and become vital to society in her own way.
She not only succeeded, but, defined compassion in society which moved people to do more than she could ever achieve alone.
This is what the young people in the USA are looking for. They are looking for the compassion of a society so they can achieve in their lives more than they ever could without the compassion of a society devoted to the achievement of their country. The achievement of our country is obtained by moving your citizens to act on the future while learning from the past.
Our young people have been hurt and they have been hurt very deeply. Sure, they had a social movement to bring about an understanding of a reality not one person in government knew existed. NOT ONE. The USA asked them to go to war to fight an illegal and immoral war and then offered them educations funded by student loans and after their educational achievement dropped them off in a failing banking system and a world that had no future for them. That isn't just hurt, that is complete rejection of their birth right.
The American young people have developed a world they understand. It is not the world I would have for them. Anyone running for office needs to understand them, otherwise, they won't see the world ahead of them as friendly or fulfilling.
The USA was once a great country when it held the compassion of Jane Addams in the the palms of their hands and was determined to change the reality of those that were left out in the margins.
Jane Addams would never claim a political designation, but, she was a Progressive. Our American Young People need her back and they need her to fight for compassion and leadership to give them back the lives greed took from them.
...Miss Addams and Miss Starr (click here) made speeches about the needs of the neighborhood, raised money, convinced young women of well-to-do families to help, took care of children, nursed the sick, listened to outpourings from troubled people. By its second year of existence, Hull-House was host to two thousand people every week. There were kindergarten classes in the morning, club meetings for older children in the afternoon, and for adults in the evening more clubs or courses in what became virtually a night school. The first facility added to Hull-House was an art gallery, the second a public kitchen; then came a coffee house, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, a cooperative boarding club for girls, a book bindery, an art studio, a music school, a drama group, a circulating library, an employment bureau, a labor museum....
Jane Addams is an interesting study. She came from a family of means, yet she had to find strength within herself to overcome health challenges from a very young age. In growing into a woman she understood how unfair life could be. She was comfortable in life and never worried about her next meal, but, she had to reach beyond the normal experience of a young woman of such means and become vital to society in her own way.
She not only succeeded, but, defined compassion in society which moved people to do more than she could ever achieve alone.
This is what the young people in the USA are looking for. They are looking for the compassion of a society so they can achieve in their lives more than they ever could without the compassion of a society devoted to the achievement of their country. The achievement of our country is obtained by moving your citizens to act on the future while learning from the past.
Our young people have been hurt and they have been hurt very deeply. Sure, they had a social movement to bring about an understanding of a reality not one person in government knew existed. NOT ONE. The USA asked them to go to war to fight an illegal and immoral war and then offered them educations funded by student loans and after their educational achievement dropped them off in a failing banking system and a world that had no future for them. That isn't just hurt, that is complete rejection of their birth right.
The American young people have developed a world they understand. It is not the world I would have for them. Anyone running for office needs to understand them, otherwise, they won't see the world ahead of them as friendly or fulfilling.
The USA was once a great country when it held the compassion of Jane Addams in the the palms of their hands and was determined to change the reality of those that were left out in the margins.
Jane Addams would never claim a political designation, but, she was a Progressive. Our American Young People need her back and they need her to fight for compassion and leadership to give them back the lives greed took from them.
