
“Let us get down to work, to slower, more cautious, more persevering and persistent work!”
"New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise",(August, 1921)
1920s
Source: 2021, November 2021, UN Climate Conference in Scotland, UK
“Let us get down to work, to slower, more cautious, more persevering and persistent work!”
"New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise",(August, 1921)
1920s
"Salt of the Earth" (co-written with Keith Richards) on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album Beggars Banquet (1968).
Lyrics
"Interview: Van Jones" in The Green Options (29 May 2007) http://ryanthibodaux.greenoptions.com/2007/05/29/the-green-options-interview-van-jones/
“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”
Source: The Likeness
King appealing for calm during the Los Angeles riots (May 1, 1992)
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (1893)
Context: As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it. So long as they tramp the streets, whose stones they lay, whose filth they clean, whose sewers they dig, yet upon which they must not stand too long lest the policeman bid them "move on"; as long as they go from factory to factory, begging for the opportunity to be a slave, receiving the insults of bosses and foremen, getting the old "no," the old shake of the head, in these factories they built, whose machines they wrought; so long as they consent to herd like cattle, in the cities, driven year after year, more and more, off the mortgaged land, the land they cleared, fertilized, cultivated, rendered of value; so long as they stand shivering, gazing thro' plate glass windows at overcoats, which they made, but cannot buy, starving in the midst of food they produced but cannot have; so long as they continue to do these things vaguely relying upon some power outside themselves, be it god, or priest, or politician, or employer, or charitable society, to remedy matters, so long deliverance will be delayed. When they conceive the possibility of a complete international federation of labor, whose constituent groups shall take possession of land, mines, factories, all the instruments of production, issue their own certificates of exchange, and, in short, conduct their own industry without regulative interference from law-makers or employers, then we may hope for the only help which counts for aught — Self-Help; the only condition which can guarantee free speech (and no paper guarantee needed).
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero