Quotes About The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

#1. The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.

Eric Schneiderman

#2. Cue the damn tears. Damn Chris Martin and his ability to make me cry every time he opens his damn mouth.

Claire Contreras

#3. I'm still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.

Hannah Harrington

#4. It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.

Theresa Serber Malkiel

#5. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#6. Those who try and destroy another person's character with lies ... end up destroying themselves in the process.

Timothy Pina

#7. You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

Margaret Way

#8. Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long ... go me. All I've got are memories and secrets.

Alyse M. Gardner

#9. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Ansel Adams

#10. It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Joseph Lowery

#11. Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

John McCain

#13. No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head - for he knows well what he deserves at the hands of those he subjugates.

Jane Jensen

#14. Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#15. When I said I might die tomorrow, I didn't mean, like, literally tomorrow. This job is really turning out to have been a bad career move.

Angela Claire

#16. The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

Otto Schily

#17. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.

Jeremy McCarter