Catharine Beecher Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

  Catharine Beecher

  Humble, Class, Political

  "Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage".

• When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Men, Independence

• ... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.

  Catharine Beecher

  School, Sacrifice, Self

• When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

  Catharine Beecher

  Jesus, Hands, Example

• Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Soul And Body, Giving

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1847). “The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy”, p.6

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