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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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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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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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"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
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"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."
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"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us."
Man
"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that."
Beauty
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
Nothing
"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing."
Work
"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
"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
People
"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
Will
"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves."
People
"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."
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"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."
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