"In order to be rated as good as……" — Florence Kelley
"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."
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10 Quotes by Florence Kelley
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies…
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward…
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there…
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and…
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To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.
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On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she…
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has…
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Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together…
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until…
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