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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
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Political Theorist
Social Critic
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Laura Jane Addams
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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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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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That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
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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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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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A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.
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A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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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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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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