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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.
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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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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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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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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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 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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A wise man has told us that men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in.
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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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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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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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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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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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.
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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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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
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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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