Awaken them from their wanton sports at your expense. Send forth your petition, and let them read it by the red glare of destruction. Thus when you cast “one long, lingering look behind,” you can be assured that you have spoken to these robbers in the only language which they have ever been able to understand; for they have never yet deigned to notice any petition from their slaves that they were not compelled to read by the red glare bursting from the cannons’ mouths, or that was not handed to them upon the point of the sword. You need no organization when you make up your mind to present this kind of petition.
Lucy Parsons, Letter to the Tramps
Mama, is that a hobo? No, that's an apple picker. Two months later: Mama, is that an apple picker? No, that's a hobo.
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Awaken them from their…
Lucy Parsons, Letter to the Tramps
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