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Discover the profound wisdom of Jane Addams, a pioneering social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This collection features her most impactful quotes on peace, service, social justice, and living a meaningful life. Explore insights from other influential thinkers like Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. alongside Addams' enduring legacy.

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00:00You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
00:03Jane Addams
00:07The good we secure for ourselves is only to be obtained by doing the work of good for others.
00:14Jane Addams
00:17We must guard against pride in our own achievements and resist the temptation to believe that we know best.
00:24Jane Addams
00:28The most exhausting thing in the world is to do for someone else what you are capable of doing for
00:34yourself.
00:36Jane Addams
00:39The experience of the immigrant is a valuable element in our national life.
00:45Jane Addams
00:49The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
00:54Jane Addams
00:58I have no desire to save the world, but to make my own corner of the world a little better.
01:04Jane Addams
01:08The artist and the scholar have the same work to do.
01:12Jane Addams
01:16Let us learn to see the whole world and not just the part of it which is within our own
01:21view.
01:22Jane Addams
01:26It is a woman's business to do the things that she can do.
01:30Jane Addams
01:34The good thing about the past is that it is finished.
01:38Jane Addams
01:42The most important thing is to be useful.
01:46Jane Addams
01:49We are all of us in the same boat, and we must be kind to one another.
01:55Jane Addams
01:58The instinct for democracy is the instinct for self-government.
02:03Jane Addams
02:07It is not enough to have good intentions, one must also have good deeds.
02:13Jane Addams
02:16True democracy is the fullest expression of the human will.
02:21Jane Addams
02:25The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
02:30Jane Addams
02:34If we could only get rid of our pride, we could get rid of so many things.
02:40Jane Addams
02:44The good citizen is the one who is willing to do what he can to make his country better.
02:50Jane Addams
02:53There is no surer way to spoil a child than to give him everything he wants.
02:59Jane Addams
03:00The good citizen is the one who is willing to do what he can to do.
03:00The good citizen is an hombre and his mother, and his country is the one who is willing to do
03:01what he can to work with.
03:01And he is capable of trying and to win the fight by him.
03:02The trzeis character of the caddies of his mother Martin
03:02And if it's like a math
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