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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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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
Autobiographer
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Human Rights Activist
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Laura Jane Addams
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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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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
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Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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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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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
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In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah, it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.
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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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A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.
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We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.
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