Activist Jane Addams was born on this day in 1860. In "Democracy and Social Ethics" (1902), she wrote: "Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory."
The Alice Sebold piece is not accurate or uptodate. Her bio offered here should certainly reference her apology for her significant role in the conviction of a man now known to be innocent of raping her.
The Alice Sebold piece is not accurate or uptodate. Her bio offered here should certainly reference her apology for her significant role in the conviction of a man now known to be innocent of raping her.