Jane Addams Short Quotes

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The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

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Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

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The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

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Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

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Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment...

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National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

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The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

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It will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave...

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One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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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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Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty...

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Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

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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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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active 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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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 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 classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

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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 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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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

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If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

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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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