Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Hosea Chaplinwas an American writer, artist and labor activist. At the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames, Kansas to Chicago in 1893. During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Díaz, and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata. On his return, he began work in various union positions, most of which were...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
men honor-and-respect class
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
men mind looks
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
facts credit speak
The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
names differences blood
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
honesty lying integrity
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.