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The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Age: 74 †
Born: 1860
Born: September 6
Died: 1935
Died: June 21
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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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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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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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A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
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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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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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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
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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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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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Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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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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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
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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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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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It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
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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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