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“The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.”

Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

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Mary Ritter Beard

Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian known for her research on women's history. Her book 'The American Woman: Her Past and Present' had a profound impact on gender studies. more

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“The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.”

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Book:A Short History of the American Labor Movement

Source: A Short History of the American Labor Movement

“the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.”

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Book:A Short History of the American Labor Movement

Source: A Short History of the American Labor Movement

“Every revolution has its counter-revolution.”

Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.”

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Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.”

“Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?”

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Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.”

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Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard