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People are tempted to assume the respectable, authoritative side is also the righteous one
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- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
It is always a temptation to assume that the side which has respectability, authority, and superior intelligence, has therefore righteousness as well, especially when the same side presents concrete results of individual effort as over against the less tangible results of associated effort.
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↗Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)gutenberg.org
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