The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean- tide, o...n which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no right ...to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty-two weeks the men were out as the strike moved into winter. It was strange to go out into the street and find the men there... in the daytime. It had a feeling of fright in it. And always the mood of the men grew uglier as empty bellies and desperation began to conquer reason. Any man who was not their friend became their enemy. They knew my father had opposed the strike, and now it was they who opposed him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a fu...ture. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »