Lillian Wald quotes:

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 ...

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

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

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

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.