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

  Jane Addams

  Principles, Belief, Conviction

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.86, 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.

  Jane Addams

  Intellectual, Done, Spheres

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

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• The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

  Jane Addams

  Rebel, Tasks, Youth

  Jane Addams (1930). “The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness”

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• No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

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  Men, Realizing, He Man

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

  Jane Addams

  Reality, Thinking, Judging

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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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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  Alive, Relation, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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

  Jane Addams

  Heartbreaking, Unemployment, Hull House

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.119, Hayes Barton Press

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• Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

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  Fear, Government, Self

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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.

  Jane Addams

  Humble, Community, Democracy

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.87, Youcanprint

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• Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

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  Air, People, Needs

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• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

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  Class, People, Democracy

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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.

  Jane Addams

  Years, People, Population

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.224, Open Road Media

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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.

  Jane Addams

  Journey, Government, Justice

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.253, Open Road Media

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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!

  Jane Addams

  Mother, Children, Stupid

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

  Jane Addams

  Responsibility, Should Have, Moral

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

  Jane Addams

  Events, Determine, Ideals

  Jane Addams (2006). “Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace”, p.4, A&C Black

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• Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Hands, Tools

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

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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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  Spiritual, Social Unrest, Expression

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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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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  Serenity, Age, Dignity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.

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  Believe, Ideas, Suffering

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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• An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
  low rental.

  Jane Addams

  Dark, Hull House, Rooms

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Jane Addams

  Real, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Jane Addams (2007). “Newer Ideals of Peace”

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• I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. 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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  Believe, Teaching, Mold

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

  Jane Addams

  Dream, Men, Competition

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

  Jane Addams

  Time, Growth, Progress

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.43, Youcanprint

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