It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

Florence Kelley was an early supporter of women's suffrage. F. This launched her to create the “The Sterling Discrimination Bill” which was an attack against the Sterling Towner Bill.

From its founding in 1899 Kelley served as the first general secretary of the National Consumers League. Florence Kelley (September 12 1859 – February 17 1932) was an American social and political reformer.