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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Social Critic
Social Reformer
Laura Jane Addams
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But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.
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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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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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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.
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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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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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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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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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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.
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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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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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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 mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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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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Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.
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