Alive Quote by Jane Addams

“One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.”

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The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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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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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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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…

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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

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Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

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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…

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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

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Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

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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…

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With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young…

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