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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.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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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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In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah, it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.
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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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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
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