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Quotation from Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams

“people might be equal in things that mattered much more than clothes, the affairs of education and religion”

Jane Addams (spoken by John H. Addams (as reported))

Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter I, Earliest Impressions (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325))

Portrait of Jane Addams

Her father's answer when, after advising her to wear her old cloak to church, she asks what can be done about inequality.

Citation: "people might be equal in things that mattered much more than clothes, the affairs of education and religion" — Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter I, Earliest Impressions (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325)). (id twenty-years-at-hull-house-q2)

Virtues: Humility, Charity

Portrait: ADDAMS, JANE 21664v (cropped2), Harris Ewing, publisher, Public domain.

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