The excellent becomes the permanent.

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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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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams in Speech, Honolulu (1933)
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

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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.

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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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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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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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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.

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