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I am a socialist because I believe that socialism will solve the misery of the world — give work to the man who is hungry and idle and at least give to little children the right to be born free … I believe socialism is practical.

You tell me the unemployed are unfit. Under socialism they will not be unfit because they will not be overtaxed. With the idle rich and idle poor working, and the work day 4 hours long, their bodies will grow strong again and their minds sane.

There are so many people in prison who should be out — with their minds and bodies given a chance to grow straight. There are so many out of prison who more deserve to be inside. There are those who enslave men and women and little children, paying wages that will not let them live…. It is them and the system under which they live that are responsible for the unemployed who have been treated like inhuman things by our society.

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