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"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."
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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."
"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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