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Jane Addams

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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.


— Jane Addams


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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.


— Jane Addams


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


— Jane Addams


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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.


— Jane Addams


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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.


— Jane Addams


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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.


— Jane Addams


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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.


— Jane Addams


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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.


— Jane Addams


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While her friends soon left the arena too horrified by the great bloody gore of the event to remain Addams stayed mesmerized by what Jane Addams saw as an exotic cultural tradition. Its facilities included a night school for adults kindergarten classes clubs for older children a public kitchen an art gallery a coffeehouse a gym a girls' club a bathhouse a book bindery a music school a drama group and a library as well as labor-related divisions. She still felt confused about her role as a woman though.

She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live they needed the vote to be effective in doing so. She is increasingly recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy.

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