"I came to Washington to work for God,……" — Frances Perkins
"I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen."
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15 Quotes by Frances Perkins
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just…
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You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a…
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It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has…
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The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction…
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either…
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Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening…
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In America, public opinion is the leader
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Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when…
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This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right?…
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind…
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