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Jane Addams Quotes about Democracy

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We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Jane Addams
Class, People, Democracy

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Jane Addams
Humble, Community, Democracy
Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.87, Youcanprint

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Jane Addams
Democracy, Tests, Wells
Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

Jane Addams
Democracy, Glimpse, Hints
Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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