Jane Addams Quotes

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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  Enemy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Hands, Tools

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

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

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  Principles, Belief, Conviction

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

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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.

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  Dark, Hull House, Rooms

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

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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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