“They call us Reds. I don't know that that is very bad. I do not believe that is a very bad name. We are pretty red. I tell you I am a real Red.”

—  Lucy Parsons

"May Day Speech" (1930)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "They call us Reds. I don't know that that is very bad. I do not believe that is a very bad name. We are pretty red. I t…" by Lucy Parsons?
Lucy Parsons photo
Lucy Parsons 16
American communist anarchist labor organizer 1853–1942

Related quotes

Rick Riordan photo
Pablo Picasso photo

“When I don't have red, I use blue.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Pablo Picasso (1953); quoted in: Kilkenny (2004), Doomsday Marauders, p. 83.
1950s

Richard Wright photo

“I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away.”

Richard Wright (1908–1960) African-American writer

Haiku: This Other World (1998)

Neil Diamond photo
Adolf Hitler photo
Camille Pissarro photo

“The weather is superb except for a very keen wind which causes me to lose much time. - I am doing a portrait of your mother in pastel, it seems it is not adequate as a likeness, it is too old, too red, not fine enough, in short, it won't do. This surprises me not at all. You know that everyone accepts the one I made pretty obvious, but that is not much good either.”

Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter

Quote in a letter to his son Lucien, Osny, 10 April 1885; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 26
1880's

Mao Zedong photo
Salma Hayek photo

Related topics