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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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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 essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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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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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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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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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
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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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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 dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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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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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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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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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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