Carl Sandburg Quotes
To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”
Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
The veiled threat of violence and disruption was a tactic that did not work.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
He was elected to Parliament while in jail and never took his seat as he died of a hunger strike in jail.
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
