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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man h...

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Twenty Years at Hull House

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...

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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...

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True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and ...

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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...

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

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Jane Addams

Sociologist

Born: 1860-09-06

Died: 1935-05-21

Laura Jane Addams (6 September 1860 – 21 May 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, public administrator and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace. She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school. In 1920, she was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.More