Susan A Garr

“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 S. Malkiel, The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker

“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building which we had accepted or the tragedy never would have happened. Moved by this sense of stricken guilt, we banded ourselves together to find a way by law to prevent this kind of disaster.”
― Frances Perkins

“Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”
― Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

“From the ashes of the Triangle Company fire began to rise one of the most dramatic and far-reaching [changes] in American history-one that would...eventually redefine forever the role the government played in the lives of ordinary people.”
― Ric Burns and James Sanders New York, 1999