Denis Kearney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
-- Denis Kearney

#Hype #Gold #Needs
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
-- Denis Kearney

#Race #Land #People
We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill him out.
-- Denis Kearney

#History #Trying #Vote
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
-- Denis Kearney

#Past #Men #Years
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
-- Denis Kearney

#Party #Government #Toil
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
-- Denis Kearney

#Despair #Aristocracy #Add
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
-- Denis Kearney

#Men #Two #Mountain
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.
-- Denis Kearney

#Book #Law #Cities
California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?
-- Denis Kearney

#Sympathy #California #Chinese
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
-- Denis Kearney

#Chinese #Borders #Mexico

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