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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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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Peace Activist
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Laura Jane Addams
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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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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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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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The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
Jane Addams
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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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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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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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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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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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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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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If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
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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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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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