Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch 'those funny Scotchmen' with amused superiority;... when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with 'such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is a poor man and has got behind-hand and when that's the case, there is no staying in the settlements; for those varmints, the... sheriffs and constables, are worse than the Indians, because you can kill Indians and you dare not kill the sheriffs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... all my letters are read. I like that. I usually put something in there that I would like the staff to see. If some of the staf...f are lazy and choose not to read the mail, I usually write on the envelope "Legal Mail." This way it will surely be read. It's important that we educate everybody as we go along.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of ...those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who ...live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners' Y.M.C.As, the mine owners' preachers and teachers, the mine owners' doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they don't get many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution right along industria...l lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goodbye, boys; I'm under arrest. I may have to go to jail. I may not see you for a long time. Keep up the fight! Don't surrender! ...Pay no attention to the injunction machine at Parkersburg. The Federal judge is a scab anyhow. While you starve he plays golf. While you serve humanity, he serves injunctions for the money powers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back... to work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said, the devil takes care of his own. Much more should a good spirit--the spirit of the Constitution and the Union--take ca...re of its own. I think it can not do less, and live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The origin of storms is not in clouds, our lightning strikes when the earth rises,... spillways free authentic power: dead John Brown's body walking from a tunnel to break the armored and concluded mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »