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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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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Laura Jane Addams
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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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It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.
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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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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
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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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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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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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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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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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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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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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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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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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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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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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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.
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