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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.
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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Human Rights Activist
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Laura Jane Addams
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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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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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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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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.
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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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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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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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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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