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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

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
Journalist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Social Critic
Social Reformer
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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 mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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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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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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A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
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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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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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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
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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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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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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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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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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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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 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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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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