Frances Perkins Quotes

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• Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious…
• You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.
• It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to…
• The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
• 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 whole…
• Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
• To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods…
• In America, public opinion is the leader
• I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
• Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and…
• This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is…
• The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women…
• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for…
• The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him…

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