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

From

United States

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Citation

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

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