Ella Reeve Bloor famous quotes

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#Mother #Children #Class

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#Children #Government #Agony

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#Hands #Tools #Fruit

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#People #Car #Watches

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#Thinking #Poet #Nature Beauty

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#Great Love #Humans #Closeness

It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.
-- Ella Reeve Bloor

#Beautiful #Dream #Reality

The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.