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For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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“For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.”

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Addams argues that ethical ideas become meaningful as social morality only when they are tested through concrete choices and conduct rather than remaining abstract commentary.

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Democracy and Social Ethics, chapter “Political Reform,” Project Gutenberg #15487. Addams immediately contrasts moral action with merely speculating about morality, placing the sentence inside her Progressive Era social-ethics argument.

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