“…the cure lies in removing the cause, which is poverty.”
Category: Lucy E. Parsons
“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…”
“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 great mass of the people have neither home nor country to love or defend.”
“And the propertyless class — the wage-earners are compelled by competition to sell their labor themselves to the lowest bidder, or starve.”
“The foul deed was done! Our comrades sleep the sleep which knows no awakening, but the grand cause for which they died is not asleep nor dead…”
“Under the deep shadow of that awful tragedy, enacted on the eleventh day of November, many shameful deeds passed almost unnoticed…”
“To those persons who may regard these aspirations as merely sentimental or utopian, I invite their attention to the operation of our capitalistic system, as outlined by Marx and others.”
“Does this rising generation know that those who inaugurated the eight-hour day were put to death at the command of capital?”
