America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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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 [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
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| Birth: | 6th September, 1860 |
| Death: | 21st May, 1935 |
| Nationality: | - |
| Profession: | Activist, Author, Leader, Lecturer, Philosopher, Sociologist |
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