Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand. - Jane Addams - Quotesmemo.com

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Jane Addams

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Hands, Hull House, Human, Nothing, Significance

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If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

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It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Dinner, Involved, Morality, Poverty, Quite, Voluntary

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Action, Cause, Drama, Fate, Men, Thrilling

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.

Acceptance, Belong, Comforts, Giving, Obvious, Taken

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

Book, Men, Preparation, Satisfy, Way, Widely

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