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Sociologist

Jane Addams, an American sociologist, was born on September 6, 1860, and died on May 21, 1935. She was a pioneer in the American social reform movement, known for her focus on the impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. Addams was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and her work had a profound impact on improving social services and promoting social justice.

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“If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.”

People Ifs Country Political Democracy Impossible Higher Mass Democratic Crave Political Life Democratic Country Hull House

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“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.”

Humans Wells Ideas Ends Social Common Democracy Journey Expression Source Drink Essentials Ethics Crowds Heat Human Experience Identification Draught

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“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.”

Literature Democracy Tendencies Satisfying Slips Glimpse Hints Perplexed

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”

Giving Wells Whole Certain Turns Democracy Taken Acceptance Comfort Fortune Obvious Curious Well Being Sanctions

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“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.”

May Values Community Democracy Members Function Raises Humble Conception

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

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

Wells Democracy Tests Test Of Faith

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“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.”

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“We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”

Men Believe Wells Desire Women Democracy Essentials Dignity Tests Well Being Sentiments Conception Creeds Test Of Faith

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

About the Author

Born: September 6, 1860
Died: May 21, 1935
Known for: Sociologist
Quotes: 96

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Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical NotesRelated source material

Democracy and Social EthicsRelated source material

The Jane Addams ReaderRelated source material

Twenty Years at Hull HouseRelated source material

Newer Ideals of PeaceRelated source material

Peace and Bread in Time of WarRelated source material

Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on PeaceRelated source material

The Spirit of Youth and the City StreetsRelated source material

The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousnessRelated source material

On EducationRelated source material

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