Ida Tarbell Quotes

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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

Ida Tarbell

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some medium the thing which it has absorbed.

Ida Tarbell

The more people who knew about Lincoln, the more chance democracy had to destroy its two chief enemies, privilege and militancy.

Ida Tarbell

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.

Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell

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Born: November 5, 1857

Died: January 6, 1944 (aged 86)

Bio: Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism.

Known for:

The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
All in the Day's Work (1939)
The Business of Being a Woman (1912)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1900)
He Knew Lincoln (1907)

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