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Social Justice Quotes by Jane Addams
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
- Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
- Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
- The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
- 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.
- 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…
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