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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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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 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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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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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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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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Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
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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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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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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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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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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 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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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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