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“... there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are “stuck” and can go no further.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Men’s minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)