"This leads to a question - if a……" — Frances Perkins
"This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster."
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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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I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
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