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Social Reformer Inspirational Quotes (126)

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A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
Jane Addams
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As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
Jane Addams
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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
Jane Addams
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But the truth is the highest consideration.
Dorothea Dix
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Man is not made better by being degraded he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
Dorothea Dix
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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.
Thomas Hughes
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Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
Beatrice Webb
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The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.
Jane Addams
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We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.
Daniel Carter Beard
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This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
Jane Addams
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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Dorothea Dix
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It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is not costing anyone anything.
John van Hengel
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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level nature will have free course and heart will answer to heart.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
Beatrice Webb
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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
Jane Addams
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A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
Jane Addams
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Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
Dorothea Dix
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Jane Addams
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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison
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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
Jane Addams
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Jane Addams
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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
Jane Addams
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It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
William Lloyd Garrison
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