When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has be...come second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally ...it is.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 »
The strikes have been put down by force; but now for the real remedy. Can't something [be] done by education of the strikers, by j...udicious control of the capitalists, by wise general policy to end or diminish the evil? The railroad strikers, as a rule, are good men, sober, intelligent, and industrious. The mischiefs are:-- 1. Strikers prevent men willing to work from doing so. 2. They seize and hold the property of their employers. 3. The consequent excitement furnishes an opportunity for the dangerous criminal classes to destroy life and property.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 »
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees... Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it ...intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »