In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Jane Addams
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  1. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  2. Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

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

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

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