Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Jane Addams

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Poverty Political theory Role of government Charity

Author

Jane Addams

Source

Twenty Years at Hull House

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Suffragist Activist

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United States

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Citation

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House. The Macmillan Company, 1910.

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 47: The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts." New York Packet, 1 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 47: Complete separation of powers not required.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.