Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams


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Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.

Jane Addams


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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


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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

Tags: humanity society security inequality rights



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I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

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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Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

Jane Addams


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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

Tags: progress humanity work



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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.

Jane Addams

Tags: inspirational justice oppression social-justice altruism



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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.

Jane Addams


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