"It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites."
"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!"
12 likes
Source: Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin. Book by Ralph Chaplin, 1922.
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Ralph Chaplin
"The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin."
"Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting."
"The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!"
"The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry."
"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."