Joe Hill
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Joe Hill was a leftist labor organizer, singer, and songwriter who was executed in 1915.
- You will get pie in the sky when you die (from the song "The Preacher and the Slave"[1])
- Don't waste time mourning -- Organize! (telegraph to William D. "Big Bill" Haywood the day before his execution)
- I'll take the shooting, I've been shot a couple times before, and I think I can take it. (to the judge - under Utah law he was given a choice of being shot or being hanged [2])
- There is power, there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That's a power, that's a power tht must rule in every land - One Industrial Union Grand. (from the song "There is power in the Union"[3])
- Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave. Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? (from the song "Workers of the World Awaken"[4])
- A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
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