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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
Autobiographer
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Laura Jane Addams
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If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
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That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.
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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.
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Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.
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It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.
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The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
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When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
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