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

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

Mary Ritter Beard
Media, America, Used
Mary Ritter Beard (1920). “A Short History of the American Labor Movement”

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.

Mary Ritter Beard
Agreement, Ideas, Movement

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.

Mary Ritter Beard
Agency, Expression, Civilization

If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.

Mary Ritter Beard
Believe, Past, Feminism
Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.145, Feminist Press at CUNY

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.

Mary Ritter Beard
Running, Mean, Men

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

Mary Ritter Beard
Comfort, License

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Mary Ritter Beard
Struggle, Civilization, Age

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