Mary Ritter Beard
Mary Ritter Beard
Mary Ritter Beardwas an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women's suffrage movement and was a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in both the labor and woman's rights movements. She wrote several books on women's role in history including On Understanding Women,America Through Women's Eyesand Woman As Force In History: A Study in Traditions and Realities. In addition, she collaborated with her husband, eminent historian Charles Austin Beard on several...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth5 August 1876
CountryUnited States of America
Mary Ritter Beard quotes about
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.
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.
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.
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.
Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
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.
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.