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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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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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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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
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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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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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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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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 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.
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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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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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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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