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Unless all men and classes contribute to a good, we cannot be sure it is worth having
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What Jane Addams actually said
- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
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 men and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
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↗Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)gutenberg.org
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