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Quotes by Jane Addams

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.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
 
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
 
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
 
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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.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
Source: "Utilization of Women in City Government' in Newer Ideals of Peace.
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The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
Source: "Filial Relations” in Democracy and Social Ethics.
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The excellent becomes the permanent.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
 
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

Jane Addams (1860 - 1935)
 
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