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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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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 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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As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
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