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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.

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  Years, People, Population

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

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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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• 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.

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  Reality, Thinking, Judging

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

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

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  Heartbreaking, Unemployment, Hull House

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

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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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• 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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  Humble, Community, Democracy

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

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

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  Air, People, Needs

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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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• Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

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  Men, Rules And Regulations, Habit

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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

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  Events, Determine, Ideals

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

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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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• 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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• 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!

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  Mother, Children, Stupid

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Journey, Government, Justice

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

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

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  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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• 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.

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  Time, Growth, Progress

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

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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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• 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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  Real, Patriotic, Patriotism

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

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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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• 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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