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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.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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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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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?
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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.
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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.
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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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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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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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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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