Jane Addams Quotes

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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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  Education, Children, Future

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• Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

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  Stronger, Different

  "The excellent becomes the permanent".

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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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  Stay Strong, Peace, Giving Up

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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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  Race, Failing, Possibility

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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  Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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  Expression, Code Of Ethics, Hull House

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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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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  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

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  Believe, Men, History

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• I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

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  Peace, War, Believe

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

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  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

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  Mean, Difficulty, Knows

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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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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  People, Imagination, Empathy

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.13, Youcanprint

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• That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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  Numbers, Empathy, Able

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• Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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  Enemy

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

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  Attitude, Army, Men

  Jane Addams (2006). “Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace”, p.303, A&C Black

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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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  Inspirational, Peace, Reality

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.316, Basic Books

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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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  Doe, Charity, Moral

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.227, Courier Corporation

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

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  Hands, Hull House, Significance

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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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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  Men, Rights, Republic

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• It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

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  People, Way, Happy People

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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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  Mixing, Size, Ethics

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

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• What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

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  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

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  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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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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  Women, Memorable, Feet

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.103, University of Illinois Press

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• We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

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  Forget, Conviction, Results

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.33, University of Illinois Press

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• We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

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  Intellectual, Done, Spheres

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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