Florence Kelley Quotes

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

Florence Kelley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1859 - February 17, 1932

Topics

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So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.

Joe Cornish

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If you're one of the only women on a set - if it's you and a bunch of men - you feel like your value doesn't come from your thoughts and your talent and what you say: your value comes from how you look and how you're perceived by the men around you.

Jessica Chastain

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I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

Max Brooks

DesertThinkYouRulesFindChoice

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

Matthew McConaughey

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A race cannot be purified from without.

Anna Julia Cooper

RaceWithoutCannotPurified

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Michael Ironside

FreedomPeopleMeBetterOverYears

Bright graduates will either set up their own companies or come and work for us or a consulting firm or government. But going to work for a small company if you are really good? No way.

Ana Patricia Botin

WorkGoodGovernmentSmallYouWay

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

Amal Clooney

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What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.

Tom Perez

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I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

DeAngelo Williams

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My dad used to play every other weekend with me when I was young. I started getting better, but he could always beat me. Then one day, he realized the jig was up. And he stopped playing me just before I could beat him.

Chris Bosh

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I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

Clive Anderson

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