Frances Perkins
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"Frances Perkins" was the United States Secretary of Labor/U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries/first woman appointed to the United States Cabinet/U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the Labor unions in the United States/labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In America, public opinion is the leader.