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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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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Laura Jane Addams
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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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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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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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A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.
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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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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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