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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
Slavery
"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"
Work
"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."
Boys
"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."
Man
"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."
Politics
"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."
Press
"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."
History
"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."
God
"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."
Suffrage
"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
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"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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"The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it."
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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."
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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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