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Quotes from Booze and Revolution — Kate Richards O'Hare

1876–1948 United States

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An efficient man is a rebellious man. And anything that raises the efficiency of the working class will speed the revolution.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

A man whose brain is pickled in whiskey is of little value to the ruling class, and he is of inestimable less value to the working class. Efficiency oils the wheels of revolution.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Prohibition has not reduced the sale of liquor, but if the ruling classes can succeed in cutting down drinking by liquor legislation, will it speed the coming revolution? Most assuredly!

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Sobriety means efficiency, and "efficiency" movements have in all ages been the incubators in which revolutions were hatched.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Get busy, you middle class foes of booze! We guarantee that if you can keep them sober, we will organize them for revolution.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

we Socialists know that hookworms in the tummy and revolutionary thoughts in the brain cannot exist in the same man at the same time.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Of course John D. Rockefeller does not realize the fact, but it is true nevertheless that the Hookworm Commission he is supporting in the South is doing more for the revolutionary awakening in Dixie than anything else.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

The ruling class has always desired more efficient slaves. They bred them to be more efficient, and then found that efficiency in producing wealth also produced a desire on the part of the slave to enjoy more. In order to secure more, the slaves revolted.

Booze and Revolution (1915)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kate Richards O'Hare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.