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Jane Addams — Portrait after a picture by Harris Ewing, publisher (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Jane Addams

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer

1860–1935

3 quotes.

The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.
Democracy and Social Ethics (1902), ch. 1; cf. Al Smith
- Democracy
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city’s disinherited.
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 14
- Charity
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them.
Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7: Personal Reactions During War
- Courage
- Hope

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