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Uneasy is the head that wears a crown. ("Justice in Connor's Kingdom")

— Irene Levine Paull We're the People (1941)

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Hatred springs from uncertainty and fear.

Greed and hypocrisy are indeed inseparable companions. ("To a Young Girl Graduate")

We're the People (1941)

The time was the era shortly after the First World War when waves of post-war immigration carried to the new world like rotting bilge water all the bitter hatreds, prejudices and venoms of Tsarist Russia and Poland.

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