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“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”

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Book:Democracy and Social Ethics
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“Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.”

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Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
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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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Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
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