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"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with."
Woman
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
Poor
"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death."
Death
"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that."
Work
"I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done."
Time
"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."
Old
"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
Will
"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift."
Family
"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."
Time
"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
Business
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