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In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of 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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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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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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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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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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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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