“My uncle couldn’t believe that we had never been told of our heritage. He took us to a May Day celebration and showed us the Diego Rivera mural there honoring the Haymarket martyrs.”
“What more fitting time than the first of the beautiful month of May, when all nature has aroused from its long winter sleep, when birds are singing, flowers bursting and fields and forests are taking on their beautiful verdure…”
“In a position to influence the workers about him, he was an insistent voice urging them to extend their solidarity across the color line to the Indians.”
“…it is hard for the average Chicagoan, even the more enlightened one, to grasp the Mexican situation and its importance in relation to himself.”
“Unbeknownst to many, including many of today’s anarchists, May Day, through the Haymarket martyrs, also has a connection to Indigenous resistance.”
“The Gibraltar-Suez-Aden sea-route is the jugular vein of the British world-power, whose spectacular rise has been largely due to its brilliant sense for key strategic positions.”
“…one may fairly say today we have more work under machinery than ever we had before its advent.”
“For the obsolete and worn-out creeds of State worship and patriotism the workers are dragged to a senseless massacre.”
“The enemies of human liberty were never more powerful, heartless, and determined to throttle what little remaining freedom the common people possess than at the present time.”
“…the most mournful thing is this final in-surge of the Anglo-Saxon upon the last retreat of the North American Indian.”
