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Jane Addams Quote: “Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”

51. “Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”

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Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

52. “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

Jane Addams Quote: “Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.”

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

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Jane Addams Quote: “This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”

54. “This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”

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Jane Addams Quote: “We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”

55. “We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

56. “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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Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.”

58. “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

Jane Addams Quote: “The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.”

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

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “One’s faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.”

60. “One’s faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.”

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Jane Addams Quote: “You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!”

61. “You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!”

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Jane Addams Quote: “The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.”

62. “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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Jane Addams Quote: “If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”

63. “If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

64. “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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Jane Addams Quote: “Yet in moments of industrial stress and strain the community is confronted by a moral perplexity which may arise from the mere fact that the good of yesterday is opposed to the good of today, and that which may appear as a choice between virtue and vice is really but a choice between virtue and virtue. In the disorder and confusion sometimes incident to growth and progress, the community may be unable to see anything but the unlovely struggle itself.”

65. “Yet in moments of industrial stress and strain the community is confronted by a moral perplexity which may arise from the mere fact that the good of yesterday is opposed to the good of today, and that which may appear as a choice between virtue and vice is really but a choice between virtue and virtue. In the disorder and confusion sometimes incident to growth and progress, the community may be unable to see anything but the unlovely struggle itself.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

66. “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.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

67. “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

Jane Addams Quote: “Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

68. “Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

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Jane Addams Quote: “The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.”

69. “The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.”

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Jane Addams Quote: “The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.”

70. “The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.”

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Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.”

72. “The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “Is it not Abraham Lincoln who has cleared the title to our democracy? He made plain, once for all, that democratic government, associated as it is with all the mistakes and shortcomings of the common people, still remains the most valuable contribution America has made to the moral life of the world.”

73. “Is it not Abraham Lincoln who has cleared the title to our democracy? He made plain, once for all, that democratic government, associated as it is with all the mistakes and shortcomings of the common people, still remains the most valuable contribution America has made to the moral life of the world.”

— Jane Addams

Jane Addams Quote: “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.”

74. “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

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