Lillian Wald Quotes

• Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

  Lillian Wald

  Attitude, Reform, Accomplished

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• The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

  Lillian Wald

  Happiness, Women, Tasks

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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

  Lillian Wald

  War, Women, History

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• The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal.

  Lillian Wald

  People, Giving, Community

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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out

  Lillian Wald

  War, Women, Men

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