Frances Perkins Quotes

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  Frances Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Being

• 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

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Depression, Measure

• In America, public opinion is the leader.

  Frances Perkins

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  Tags in Public, Opinion

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Experiment, Problems

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Establish, Again, Woman

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Without, Possible

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Believe, Civilization

Frances Perkins (7)

Birth:	10th April, 1880
Death:	14th May, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Frances Perkins Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an American politician. She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. During her term as Secretary of Labor, she executed many aspects of the New Deal, including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Public Works Administration and its successor the Federal Works Agency, and the labor portion of the National Industrial Recovery Act. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and physics in 1902. She obtained a master's degree in political science from Columbia University in 1910.

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