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“To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.”

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The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

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Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility…

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... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at…

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Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick…

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Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

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The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors…

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I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or…

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I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of…

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... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

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During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry.…

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... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

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... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

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The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

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If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

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