"On the one hand, she is cut off……" — Florence Kelley
"On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home."
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10 Quotes by Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show…
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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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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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