Joe Hill

Joe Hill

Labor Activist, Songwriter

Joe Hill was a prominent labor activist and songwriter known for his powerful contributions to the labor movement and his enduring songs advocating for workers' rights.

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Born
October 2, 1879
Died
October 19, 1915
Quotes
76
Rank
#3620

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"He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement."

Men Law Clothes
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"I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death."

Art Hungry Said
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"If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all."

Fire Rakes Coal
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"It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness."

Ideas Persons Bewildered
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"It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant."

Philosophical Exercise Evil
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"I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again."

Past Shooting Used
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"She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English."

People Ugly Tragic
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"God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now, frequently to those who deserve it least. So it was in my case. So it is for many. The devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning."

Devil Allies Different
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"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

Understanding Suffering Would Be
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"She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love."

Stills
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"Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes."

Gold Matter
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"There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy."

Hero Guy Devil
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"It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?""

Want Needs Keith
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