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Somewhere and soon the Smith Act will go into the discard as did the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1800, the Fugitive Slave Laws of the sixties, the Criminal Syndicalist Laws of the 1920s.

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Speech in Court, charged under the Smith Act (1952)

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Whatever her subsequent political shortcomings may have been, progressive women were very proud of her at that time.

Force and violence come from the ruling class and not from the people.

Speech in Court, charged under the Smith Act (1952)

A labor victory must be twofold, but if it can only be one it is better to gain in spirit than to gain economic advantage.

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The Industrial Workers of the World is a new form of labor organization, one that stands for the industrial working class and that class alone.

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The train on which I write rushes by factories where murder instruments are made for gold.

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