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Walk the good road, my daughter, and the buffalo herds wide and dark as cloud shadows moving over the prairie will follow you. . . . Be dutiful, respectful, gentle and modest, my daughter. And proud walking. If the pride and the virtue of the women are lost, the spring will come but the buffalo trails will turn to grass. Be strong, with the warm, strong heart of the earth. No people goes down until their women are weak and dishonored.
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relations and marriage. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose writing emphasized the crucial question of economic equality between the sexes, wrote a poem called "The Socialist and the Suffragist," ending with: "A lifted world lifts women up," The Socialist explained. "You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept so small," the Suffragist maintained. The world awoke, and tartly spoke: "Your work is all the same; Work together or work..
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No harm shall come to any business interest as the result of administrative policy so long as I am President
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If God had intended us to vote, he would have given us candidates
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It was the new politics of ambiguity--speaking for the lower and middle classes to get their support in times of rapid growth and potential turmoil. The two-party system came into its own in this time. To give people a choice between two different parties and allow them, in a period of rebellion, to choose the slightly more democratic one was an ingenious mode of control. Like so much in the American system, it was not devilishly contrived ..
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In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates.
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The stock market crash of 1929, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression of the United States, came directly from wild speculation which collapsed and brought the whole economy down with it. But, as John Galbraith says in his study of that event (The Great Crash), behind that speculation was the fact that "the economy was fundamentally unsound." He points to very unhealthy corporate and banking structures, an unsound foreign trade..
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The members of a trades union should be taught . . . that the labor movement means more, infinitely more, than a paltry increase in wages and the strike necessary to secure it; that while it engages to do all that possibly can be done to better the working conditions of its members, its higher object is to overthrow the capitalist system of private ownership of the tools of labor, abolish wage-slavery and achieve the freedom of the whole wo..
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Socialism moved out of the small circles of city immigrants--Jewish and German socialists speaking their own languages--and became American. The strongest Socialist state organization was in Oklahoma, which in 1914 had twelve thousand dues-paying members (more than New York State), and elected over a hundred Socialists to local office, including six to the Oklahoma state legislature. There were fifty-five weekly Socialist newspapers in Okla..
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Murder has been plotted and is about to be executed in the name and under the forms of law.... It is a foul plot; a damnable conspiracy; a hellish outrage.... If they attempt to murder Moyer, Haywood and their brothers, a million revolutionists, at least, will meet them with guns.... Capitalist courts never have done, and never will do, anything for the working class.... A special revolutionary convention of the proletariat ... would be in ..
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children forever.
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extravagant.
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I have a little boy at home, A pretty little son; I think sometimes the world is mine In him, my only one. . . 'Ere dawn my labor drives me forth; Tis night when I am free; A stranger am I to my child; And stranger my child to me. . . .
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Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews,
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In January 1943, there appeared in a Negro newspaper this "Draftee's Prayer": Dear Lord, today I go to war: To fight, to die, Tell me what for? Dear Lord, I'll fight, I do not fear, Germans or Japs; My fears are here. America!"
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the prayers of those who hold religion in one hand, and
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Truman claimed was the figure given him
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Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.
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grievances of the lowest classes mingled with
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Racism was becoming more and more practical.
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Is it equitable that 99, rather 999, should suffer for the Extravagance or Grandeur of one, especially when it is considered that men frequently owe their Wealth to the impoverishment of their Neighbors?
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I'll never forget that day." It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.)"
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There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States. And
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It is the great challenge of our time: How to achieve justice, with struggle, but without war.
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