Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsonswas an American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator. Parsons entered the radical movement following her marriage to newspaper editor Albert Parsons and moved with him from Texas to Chicago, where she contributed to the newspaper he famously edited, The Alarm. Following her husband's 1887 execution in conjunction with the Haymarket Affair, Parsons remained a leading American radical activist as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World...
industrial system
Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?
cup drunk sorrow thy
Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.
wealthy avenues
We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live
struggle class peaceful
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
vote wealth rich
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
struggle hours strikes
Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.
war dirty knives
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
struggle moving voice
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.
determination lying struggle
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold
boss changed
Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.