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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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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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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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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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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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