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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.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
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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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A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
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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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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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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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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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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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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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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
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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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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
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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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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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