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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 future. 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.

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Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, li…

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Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

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Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements,…

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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

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Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

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Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

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I am luminous with age.

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It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

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It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitte…

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