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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Jane Addams

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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Social Critic
Social Reformer
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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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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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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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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.
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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 essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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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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A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
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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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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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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 easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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