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Jane Addams was an American social reformer, pacifist, and leader in women’s suffrage. She co-founded Hull House in Chicago, which became a center for social work and progressive reforms. She remains a pioneering figure in the fields of social justice and humanitarianism. Here are 36 of her quotes:

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. (Jane Addams)

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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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.

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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.

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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.

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True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

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These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that 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; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings 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; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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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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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

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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. (Jane Addams)

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Jane Addams

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Occupation: American Activist
Born: September 6, 1860
Died: June 21, 1935
Quotes count: 36
Wikipedia: Jane Addams

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