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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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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But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.
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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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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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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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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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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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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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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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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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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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