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In America, public opinion is the leader
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Feminist
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The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Women
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Hiking
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I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Economics
Littles
Puppy
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The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Government
People
What Matters
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Menace
Progress
Stopping
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Came
Glacier
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It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Mind
Spirit
Way
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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 partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Smile
Men
Common
Common Sense
Long
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Carried
Either
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Long History
Met
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Problems
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Civilization
Police
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Conditions
Police
Believes
Industrial
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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Men
Healthy
Needs
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Women
Doors
Duty
Geography
Long
Long Time
Might
Seats
Time Walk Long
Time Women Long
Again
Chair
Woman
Distant
Door
Down
High
Establish
Far
Walk
Hence
Offered
Opened
Sit
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Men
Ethical Principles
Eye
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Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Opportunity
Civilization
Ideas
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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.
Frances Perkins / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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