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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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It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
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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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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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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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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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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 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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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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When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.
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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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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
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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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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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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 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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A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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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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