1877 Quotes

“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race--small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”
― Chief Sitting Bull

“It was during the great railroad strike of 1877 that i became interested in what is known as the 'Labor question”
― Lucy Parsons