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> [The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/the-worth-of-every-conviction-consists-precisely-in-the-steadfastness/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

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## More by Jane Addams

> [The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/the-task-of-youth-is-not-only-its-own-salvation-but-the-salvation-of/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/in-his-own-way-each-man-must-struggle-lest-the-moral-law-become-a-far/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/private-beneficence-is-totally-inadequate-to-deal-with-the-vast/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/that-person-is-most-cultivated-who-is-able-to-put-himself-in-the/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/as-the-acceptance-of-democracy-brings-a-certain-life-giving-power-so/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/perhaps-nothing-is-so-fraught-with-significance-as-the-human-hand/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/intellectual-life-requires-for-its-expansion-and-manifestation-the/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/life-cannot-be-administered-by-definite-rules-and-regulations-that/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/hospitality-still-survives-among-foreigners-although-it-is-buried/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/keep-friends-close-but-keep-enemies-closer/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/we-are-thus-brought-to-a-conception-of-democracy-not-merely-as-a/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/with-all-the-efforts-made-by-modern-society-to-nurture-and-educate/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/if-the-meanest-man-in-the-republic-is-deprived-of-his-rights-then/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/if-the-underdog-were-always-right-one-might-quite-easily-try-to/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

> [Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/pliable-human-nature-is-relentlessly-pressed-upon-by-its-physical/)

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