Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Kate Richards O'Hare
23 quotes
“Prohibition has not reduced the sale of liquor, but if the ruling classes can succeed in cutting down drinking by liquor legislation, will it speed the coming revolution? Most assuredly!”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sobriety means efficiency, and "efficiency" movements have in all ages been the incubators in which revolutions were hatched.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ruling class has always desired more efficient slaves. They bred them to be more efficient, and then found that efficiency in producing wealth also produced a desire on the part of the slave to enjoy more. In order to secure more, the slaves revolted.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When that efficient worker has built a world of beauty, comfort and luxury, he will not stop at the puny gates of private property with which the ruling class would shut him out of the Paradise he has created, but he will use the same efficiency with which he built the gates to hammer them down again.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man whose brain is pickled in whiskey is of little value to the ruling class, and he is of inestimable less value to the working class. Efficiency oils the wheels of revolution.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of course John D. Rockefeller does not realize the fact, but it is true nevertheless that the Hookworm Commission he is supporting in the South is doing more for the revolutionary awakening in Dixie than anything else.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“we Socialists know that hookworms in the tummy and revolutionary thoughts in the brain cannot exist in the same man at the same time.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An efficient man is a rebellious man. And anything that raises the efficiency of the working class will speed the revolution.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Get busy, you middle class foes of booze! We guarantee that if you can keep them sober, we will organize them for revolution.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For eighteen months the very atmosphere of the nation has been surcharged with the roaring, shricking shouts of Americanism, then in a single day a thunderous silence descended upon us and we felt the stunned scene of unreality that fell upon the soldiers in the trenches when the signing of the armistice suddenly stopped the roar and bedlam of war.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Max Eastman, one of the foremost writers and teachers of the country, went to Fargo, North Dakota, to deliver a lecture on "Democracy." A great crowd evidently interested in the thing we were fighting to make the world safe for, gathered in the court to listen to what he had to say. A drunken mob, led by a judge and a "very respectable" attorney, invaded the "temple of justice" and would have murdered Max Eastman but for the sublime heroism and unflinching courage of a woman. An attempted murder of Max Eastman was flaunted as an exhibition of the "spirit of Americanism.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“there was written into the history of our country the most shameful story of abject cowardice on the part of elected officials that has ever blackened the pages of human history the so-called "espionage act.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw in the tombs in New York City a tiny, half-starved scrap of girlhood that should have been in a grade school, who was sentenced to twenty years at hard labor for saying that President Wilson was a hypocrite, and that girl is now serving this monstrous sentence with Stars and Stripes the emblem of freedom, justice, and democracy, flying over the hell-hole in which she is imprisoned.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soon the country was overrun by spies, seeking not German vandals but Americans who held ideas and beliefs differing from the administration. Soon every vicious element in our society was hot on the trail of every man or woman who had ever stood for social justice and industrial democracy, and found it an easy matter to railroad them to prison. It was only necessary to cry "disloyal," "seditious," "pro-German," "un-American," and like the witches of old the leaders of the working class were hounded, imprisoned and murdered.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have learned by long and bitter experience that when the "kept press" assails a thing, that it must be something very beneficial to the working class; that when the newspapers slander and villify an individual or movement may be serving the masses and endangering the privileged classes.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bolshevism is a new word, but the charges brought against it and its supporters have a strangely familiar sound-we seem to remember them of old. Privilege is so sterile of ideas; so barren of imagination, that it has not been able to think of one new lie; to concoct one fresh slander; to turn one new trick or say one new thing about Bolshevism that has not already been worn to tatters in the assaults upon abolition of slavery, trade unionism, woman's suffrage, Socialism, the Non-Partisan League and the I. W. W.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bolshevism may cause the goose-flesh of abject terror to prickle the spine of the "powers that prey," but it has no terrors for the working class.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Socialism is coming, and it seems poetic justice that it should be thrust upon the world by its most bitter enemies. Industrial and political autocracy run mad plunged the whole world into war, and then the world, in order to save itself from utter destruction, was compelled to turn to Socialism for salvation. The warring nations did not make the long strides towards industrial democracy because they loved the Socialists, or wanted Socialism, but because it is the only thing that can meet the situation and save the world from utter chaos and ruin.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The want of a biscuit, a beefsteak and a job has caused more revolutions than all the flags that ever waved”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Looking back over twenty years, I am content. I gave to the service of the working class all that I had and all that I was, and no one can do more.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is any institution in our social organism which needs the light of intelligent study, rational understanding and sane revolution, it is our criminal laws; their administration and systems of punishment.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the enactment of certain parts of this one act a way was opened by which we as people lost rights secured by hundreds of years of ceaseless struggle, rights that had been bought and paid for in the blood and suffering of our fathers, religious liberty, the very ideal that sent the Puritan forefathers to this savage land, was destroyed overnight. In the land whose constitution guarantees religious liberty, by the misuse of this act, scores of men were sent to prison for ten and twenty years for circulating a book that stated in the mildest, gentlest language that wars were contrary to the teaching of Jesus. Thousands of young men whose religious convictions made it impossible for them to bear arms or kill their fellow men were forced by the most brutal methods into uniforms, dragged like felons to training camps, subjected to tortures that vie with the horrors of the Inquisition, and that sent many of them to an untimely grave.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Under the operation of the "espionage act" it was not necessary to really commit the crime of having an opinion of the administration; it was not necessary to do anything at all, or to be responsible for any results. Hundreds of people are now behind prison bars whom the administration never charged with any overt act; they merely were found guilty for having an "intent," and that "intent" was sufficient to call down upon their heads punishment far more severe than is dealt out to thieves, bank wreckers, white slaves and murderers. No white slaver who has made traffic in human flesh for the profits of vice in this country has ever been sentenced to five, ten or twenty years in prison, as Rose Pastor Stokes, Eugene V. Debs and others have been sentenced for having an "intent" that never accomplished any purpose whatever.”
Kate Richards O'Hare (1876–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source