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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Laura Jane Addams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
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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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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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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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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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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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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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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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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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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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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 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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