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FROM A SPEECH BY FLORENCE KELLEY TO THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION IN 1905.

“TONIGHT WHILE WE SLEEP, SEVERAL THOUSAND LITTLE GIRLS WILL BE WORKING IN TEXTILE MILLS, ALL THE NIGHT THROUGH, 20 IN THE DEAFENING NOISE OF THE SPINDLES AND THE LOOMS SPINNING AND WEAVING COTTON AND WOOL, SILKS AND RIBBONS FOR US TO BUY.”

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FROM A SPEECH BY FLORENCE KELLEY TO THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION IN 1905.

“IN PENNSYLVANIA, UNTIL LAST MAY IT WAS LAWFUL FOR CHILDREN, 13 YEARS OF AGE, TO WORK TWELVE HOURS AT NIGHT.”

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FROM A SPEECH BY FLORENCE KELLEY TO THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION IN 1905.

“IF THE MOTHERS AND THE TEACHERS IN GEORGIA COULD VOTE, WOULD THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE HAVE REFUSED AT EVERY SESSION FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS TO STOP THE WORK IN THE MILLS OF CHILDREN UNDER TWELVE YEARS OF AGE?”

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FROM A SPEECH BY QUEEN ELIZABETH TO HER TROOPS AT TILBURY AS THE SPANISH ARMADA APPROACHED ENGLAND.

MY LOVING PEOPLE,         WE HAVE BEEN PERSUADED BY SOME THAT ARE CAREFUL OF OUR SAFETY, TO TAKE HEED HOW WE COMMIT OUR SELVES TO ARMED MULTITUDES, FOR FEAR OF TREACHERY; BUT I ASSURE YOU I DO NOT DESIRE TO LIVE TO DISTRUST MY FAITHFUL AND LOVING PEOPLE. 

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FROM RACHEL CARSON’S BOOK SILENT SPRING, IN WHICH SHE ARGUES THAT FARMERS’ INDISCRIMINATE USE OF PESTICIDES WILL EVENTUALLY CAUSE BIRDS TO GO EXTINCT IN NORTH AMERICA.

WHO HAS MADE THE DECISION THAT SETS IN MOTION THESE CHAINS OF POISONINGS, THIS EVER-WIDENING WAVE OF DEATH THAT SPREADS OUT LIKE RIPPLES WHEN A PEBBLE IS DROPPED INTO A STILL POND?

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FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S “LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL.”

I AM IN BIRMINGHAM BECAUSE INJUSTICE IS HERE. JUST AS THE PROPHETS OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY B.C. LEFT THEIR VILLAGES AND CARRIED THEIR "THUS SAITH THE LORD" FAR BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR HOME TOWNS, AND JUST AS THE APOSTLE PAUL LEFT HIS VILLAGE OF TARSUS AND CARRIED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE GRECO ROMAN WORLD, SO AM I COMPELLED TO CARRY THE GOSPEL OF FREEDOM BEYOND MY OWN HOME TOWN. LIKE PAUL, I MUST CONSTANTLY RESPOND TO THE MACEDONIAN CALL FOR AID.

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FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S “LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL.”

INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE. WE ARE CAUGHT IN AN INESCAPABLE NETWORK OF MUTUALITY, TIED IN A SINGLE GARMENT OF DESTINY.

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FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S “LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL.”

 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE SEEN VICIOUS MOBS LYNCH YOUR MOTHERS AND FATHERS AT WILL AND DROWN YOUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS AT WHIM; WHEN YOU HAVE SEEN HATE FILLED POLICEMEN CURSE, KICK AND EVEN KILL YOUR BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS; WHEN YOU SEE THE VAST MAJORITY OF YOUR TWENTY MILLION NEGRO BROTHERS SMOTHERING IN AN AIRTIGHT CAGE OF POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY;…THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY WE FIND IT DIFFICULT TO WAIT.

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