“No law can give freedom to a people which is dependent upon some power or authority outside themselves for the necessaries of life. The owners of the means of life can dictate the terms upon which all who are not owners are to be permitted to live.”

—  Keir Hardie

Source: From Serfdom to Socialism (1907), p. 9

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