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"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."
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"Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence."

"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition."

"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."
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"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

"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."

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."
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