quote of the day/who said it?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Feb 21 12:16:07 PST 2001



>From: Lisa & Ian Murray (seamus at accessone.com)
>Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 14:08:53 EST
>
>"The people have begun to think; and they show evidences on all sides of a
>tendency to act. Those of you who have not had an opportunity of talking much
>with laboring men can hardly form a conception of the amount of thinking that
>they are doing. With many these problems are all-absorbing. Many workingmen,
>otherwise uneducated, talk about the relation of employer and
>employee far more
>intelligently than most of the best educated men in the community. The labor
>question involves for them the whole of life, and they must in the course of a
>comparatively short time realize the power which lies in them. Often their
>leaders are men of signal ability, men who can hold their own in discussion or
>in action with the ablest and best-educated men in the community. The labor
>movement must necessarily progress."

Louis D. Brandeis. See <http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/brandeis.html>.

Yoshie



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