Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

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Jane Addams was a 19th-century American reformer. Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour

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