1035 – “Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.”

-Voltairine de Cleyre

Quote Number: 343

Source: de Cleyre, Voltairine. “Direct Action.” Address. Chicago. January 21, 1912. Published in Mother Earth. Magazine. 1912. Online at Wikisource Here.

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