Albion Fellows Bacon

Albion Fellows Bacon

Social Reformer

Albion Fellows Bacon was a prominent American social reformer and advocate for women's rights, known for her influential work in the early 20th century.

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Born
October 1, 1855
Died
April 1, 1928
Quotes
9
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#4333

About Albion Fellows Bacon

Albion Fellows Bacon — Life and Legacy

Albion Fellows Bacon was a significant figure in the early 20th-century social reform movement, particularly known for her advocacy for women's rights and social justice. Her notable contributions include her role in the establishment of the Women's Trade Union League and her writings that challenged societal norms regarding gender roles. Bacon's core thinking revolved around the belief that true equality could only be achieved through active social reform. She famously stated that 'the best way to uplift the race is to uplift the women,' highlighting her conviction that empowering women was essential for societal progress. This perspective not only underscored her commitment to women's rights but also challenged the prevailing notions of her time that relegated women to subordinate roles. The relevance of Bacon's ideas continues today as her quotes and advocacy resonate with ongoing struggles for gender equality and social justice. Her work serves as a reminder of the importance of fighting for equity and the vital role women play in shaping a just society.

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"... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all."

Mother Mind Majority
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"If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment."

Past Cities House
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"...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away."

Memories Compassion Curves
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"One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum."

Country Children Sunshine
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"The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it."

Children Lessons Midst
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"It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled."

Running Hurt Children
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"... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine."

Sunshine Shadow Poor
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