Jay Gould cytaty

Jason „Jay” Gould – amerykański przemysłowiec i finansista, magnat kolejowy.

✵ 27. Maj 1836 – 2. Grudzień 1892
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Jay Gould cytaty

„Mogę zatrudnić jedną połowę klasy pracującej, aby zabić drugą połowę.”

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. (ang.)
podczas strajku robotników w 1886.
Źródło: Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States (1975), rozdz. 2, s. 50.

Jay Gould: Cytaty po angielsku

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”

Frequently attributed, often in the context of strikebreaking activities during the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886. See for example Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 2‎ - Page 50 (1975). A contemporary source has not been identified. Varying forms of the quotation circulated in the labor press as early as 1893, with or without the attribution to Gould.
Attributed

“The ultimate result will be to annihilate Indians the & open up the Big Horn & Black Hills to development & settlement & in this way greatly benefit us.”

Letter to Silas H. H. Clark (1876) regarding the Great Sioux War, quoted in Union Pacific: 1862-1893 by Maury Klein