Jane Addams

Name: Twenty Years at Hull House
ISBN: 9791041807475

Activist

1860-09-06

Books by Jane Addams

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True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
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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.
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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.
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True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
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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.
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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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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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.
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Friends are family you choose for yourself.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of one's self.
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