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Jane Addams Quotes

The excellent becomes the permanent Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

... Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment Picture Quote #1

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled Picture Quote #1

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer Picture Quote #1

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You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! Picture Quote #1

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air Picture Quote #1

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive Picture Quote #1

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment Picture Quote #1

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men Picture Quote #1

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand Picture Quote #1

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National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events Picture Quote #1

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution Picture Quote #1

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves Picture Quote #1

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment Picture Quote #1

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held Picture Quote #1

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself Picture Quote #1

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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics Picture Quote #1

One’s faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it Picture Quote #1

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple Picture Quote #1

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city’s disinherited Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel Picture Quote #1

Democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith Picture Quote #1

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The excellent becomes the permanent (Jane Addams Quotes) 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. (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) ... Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment (Jane Addams Quotes) Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled (Jane Addams Quotes) Keep friends close but keep enemies closer (Jane Addams Quotes) You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! (Jane Addams Quotes) Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air (Jane Addams Quotes) The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive (Jane Addams Quotes) Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment (Jane Addams Quotes) Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men (Jane Addams Quotes) Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand (Jane Addams Quotes) National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events (Jane Addams Quotes) The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution (Jane Addams Quotes) It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves (Jane Addams Quotes) Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment (Jane Addams Quotes) The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held (Jane Addams Quotes) The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself (Jane Addams Quotes) Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics (Jane Addams Quotes) One’s faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it (Jane Addams Quotes) The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple (Jane Addams Quotes) Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city’s disinherited (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel (Jane Addams Quotes) Democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith (Jane Addams Quotes) That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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