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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Laura Jane Addams
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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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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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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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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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It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.
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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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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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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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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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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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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 cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
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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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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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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
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