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A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
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
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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