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Jane Addams Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep Picture Quote #1

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,during his earlier years of a miller’s life Picture Quote #1

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself Picture Quote #1

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

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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! Picture Quote #1

... Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty Picture Quote #1

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning 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

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation Picture Quote #1

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour’s practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning Picture Quote #1

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life Picture Quote #1

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights Picture Quote #1

The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 implylow rental Picture Quote #1

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave Picture Quote #1

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one’s self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage Picture Quote #1

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations Picture Quote #1

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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 (Jane Addams Quotes) It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep (Jane Addams Quotes) I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become,during his earlier years of a miller’s life (Jane Addams Quotes) Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself (Jane Addams Quotes) The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels (Jane Addams Quotes) ... 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 Quotes) ... Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty (Jane Addams Quotes) You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning (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) Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation (Jane Addams Quotes) The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour’s practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning (Jane Addams Quotes) In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life (Jane Addams Quotes) If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights (Jane Addams Quotes) The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 implylow rental (Jane Addams Quotes) If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave (Jane Addams Quotes) All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one’s self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 (Jane Addams Quotes) 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 Quotes) A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage (Jane Addams Quotes) A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations (Jane Addams Quotes)

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