Frances Perkins Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Frances Perkins:

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


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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


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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


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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


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In America, public opinion is the leader.
~Frances Perkins


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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


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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
~Frances Perkins


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/frances-perkins-quotes/#dc8dc437

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