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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.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.
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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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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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A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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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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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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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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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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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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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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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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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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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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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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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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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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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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