Ralph Chaplin

“Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the cowed and the meek, who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak!”

“In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.”

“But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.”

“<strong class="highlight">Solidaritystrong> forever, <strong class="highlight">Solidaritystrong> forever, <strong class="highlight">Solidaritystrong> forever, For the union makes us strong.”

“We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.”

“Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? For the union makes us strong.”

“When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun.”

“It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade; Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid; Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made.”