“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building which we had accepted or the tragedy never would have happened. Moved by this sense of… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy. — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen. — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
“The New Deal began on March 25th, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned.” — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
