Ralph Chaplin Quotes

Ralph Chaplin — American Activist born on December 29, 1887, died on December 29, 1961

Ralph Hosea Chaplin was an American writer, artist and labor activist. At the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames, Kansas to Chicago in 1893. During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Díaz, and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata. On his return, he began work in various union positions, most of which were poorly paid. Some of Chaplin's early artwork was done for the International Socialist Review and other Charles H. Kerr publications... (wikipedia)

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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

Ralph Chaplin Quotes

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