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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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.Jane Addams
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.
Jane Addams
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.
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.
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