Florence Kelley

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

— Florence Kelley

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the…

— Florence Kelley

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women…

— Florence Kelley

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly…

— Florence Kelley

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are…

— Florence Kelley

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a…

— Florence Kelley

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better…

— Florence Kelley

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not…

— Florence Kelley

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a…

— Florence Kelley

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no…

— Florence Kelley