Bill Haywood quotes
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“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”
-- Bill HaywoodSource : "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.
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“The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!”
-- Bill HaywoodSource : "The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.
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“Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!”
-- Bill HaywoodSource : "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p. 147), 1983.
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“To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.”
-- Bill HaywoodSource : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”
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“If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.”
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“A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.”
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“The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.”
-- Bill HaywoodSource : "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson, p. 146, 1983.
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