"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."

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"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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