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Lena Morrow Lewis Quotes

1868–1950 United States

Martha Lena Morrow Lewis (1868-1950) was an American orator, political organizer, journalist, and newspaper editor. An activist in the prohibition, women's suffrage, and socialist movements, Lewis is best remembered as a top female leader of the Socialist Party of America during that organization's heyday in the first two decades of the 20th century and as the first woman to serve on that organization's governing National Executive Committee.

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Only as the workers have knowledge and intelligence can they solve the problem of their own political and industrial freedom.

The Materialist Basis of Education (1912)

Let us ever remember that knowledge is power!

The Materialist Basis of Education (1912)

The ethics of capitalism will disappear with the passing of the institution of private property.

The Sex and Woman Questions (1911)

The Co-operative Commonwealth will give us a new and a higher standard of morality.

The Sex and Woman Questions (1911)

Two hundred years ago one could find but few workingmen who could read or write.

The Materialist Basis of Education (1912)

The introduction and establishment of the institution of private property completely changed the status of woman in society.

The Sex and Woman Questions (1911)

The tendency of some people to confound the woman question with the sex question evidences a lack of a scientific knowledge and appreciation of the fundamental principles of the two problems.

The Sex and Woman Questions (1911)

(I) have been an interested student of the labor and Socialist movements for more than 30 years.

Letter to Morris Novik (1936)

The capitalist masters have educated the workers to their advantage to-day, but for their undoing tomorrow. The thing that makes for the triumph of capitalism ultimately makes for its own downfall.

The Materialist Basis of Education (1912)

The future victories of the working class lie not so much in their numbers (the workers have always been in the vast majority), but in the knowledge they possess and the ability to intelligently organize and act together on the political and economic fields.

The Materialist Basis of Education (1912)

I believe that Labor should have a directing voice in the economic, political and social life of the nation. I believe that political and industrial changes should be brought about by democratic methods and policies.

Letter to Morris Novik (1936)

Education of the workers for the benefit of the capitalist class means gain and profit only for the few, the upper class of to-day. Education of the workers for the benefit of the working class means gain and profit for the working class and ultimately for the whole human race.

The Materialist Basis of Education (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lena Morrow Lewis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.