Crime Quotes
O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!
Otis and his paper were virulently anti-labor. See {617172} .
This is the earliest version of this idea which was made famous with a statistical reference by Stalin speaking to Churchill {616657}. Also a French diplomat preceded Stalin {627488} .
Often quoted by historians and victims of state murders and wartime atrocities.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. He was instrumental in being one of the major writers who made the American public aware of the fact that the very wealthy sometimes systematically committed crimes involving money and in much larger crimes than the poor criminals.
Sherman had friends in the South and he saw rebellion and war coming. Most Southerners had a romanticized view of war and were so wrapped up in trying to preserve their economic and cultural way of life that they did not think through the implications of such a war. After and during the war, he was particularly angry with the Southerners who had brought such terrible casualties and destruction upon the land and its people.
Her view was only held by a few British citizens. Capital Punishment was ended in Britain.
She was referring to the high percentage of Rockefeller workers who were killed in industrial accidents with little or no management concern for workplace safety. In addition, she accused Rockefeller (and other very rich employers) of paying such low wages that full time workers lived in abject poverty and suffering the short lifespan that went with poverty then (and even today, but less so.)
