Quote reblogged from how far that story goes
I have listened to all the speakers, and I have no further patience for talk. I am a working girl, one of those striking against intolerable conditions. I am tired of listening to speakers who talk in generalities. What we are here for is to decide whether or not to strike. I make a motion that we go out in a general strike.
Clara Lemlich, a nineteen-year-old garment worker at the meeting of several famous American labour leaders debating whether or not to support a strike.
Are you stanning her yet? Why not?
(via evewithanapple)
Source: evewithanapple
