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

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  Moving, Men, Emotional

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

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• My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.

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  War, Small Numbers, Order

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.317, Basic Books

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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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  Father, Writing, Temptation

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• Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

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  Children, Attitude, Soon Enough

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

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  Cities, May, Corporations

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

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  Intellectual, Expansion, Affection

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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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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  Promise, Purpose, Dupes

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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

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  Cities, Numbers, Justice

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.164, Hayes Barton Press

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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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  Justice, Diversity, Intellectual

  Jane Addams (1977). “On Education”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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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.

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  Drama, Fate, Men

  Jane Addams (2016). “The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets”, p.41, Youcanprint

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• The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

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  Real, Successful, Irritation

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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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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  Voice, Differences, Unity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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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. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

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  Men, Race, Order

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

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• It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

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  Successful, Giving, Achievement

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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• Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

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  Party, Men, Jail

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• When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.

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  Integrity, Character, May

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.129, Youcanprint

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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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  Cities, Littles, Poor

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.13, University of Illinois Press

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• Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

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  Philosophy, Boys, Race

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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

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  Human Nature, Environment, Humans

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

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  Believe, Self, Promise

  Jane Addams (2010). “The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: Vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness”, p.601, University of Illinois Press

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• It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

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  Dinner, Poverty, Morality

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

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  Passion, Opportunity, Joy

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

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• The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

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  Desire, Spirit, Christianity

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.23, Basic Books

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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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  Art, Men, Long

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.132, Hayes Barton Press

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• The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.

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  Journey, Expression, Ideas

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.14, Youcanprint

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