Florence Kelley

Quotes

• “In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must ...”
• “The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be ...”
• “The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened...”
• “On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power t...”
• “Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in th...”
• “This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until...”
• “Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions tow...”