"To know that little children will no more drudge and wither away in factories and mines, that women will not slowly coin their heart's blood over their needle, while starvation eternally stares in at the door; that strong men will not waste their lives in abject slavery or unwilling vagabondage, and that constant fear of cold and hunger and homelessness that so petrifies and stupifies the heart and soul will be banished forever, that woman will be freed from the black clinging trail of the serpent winding through all ages, the selling of herself for bread or splendor; that genius will, no longer crushed in the narrow, suffering limits of neglect and poverty, rise to heights unknown before -- is it not worth working, living and dying for?"
Albert Parsons
American anarchist leader
Executed by the US government in 1886 for fighting for all the above
