"My earliest memory was of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the day of his funeral, when all the shutters of …"

"Through the Quakers, who believed in equality for women, I first came into touch with the woman suffrage movement. I …"

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"The organized pressure of the masses wrested more concessions from the New Deal than it was ever intended to give the…"

"I do not minimize what our Party has done toward bringing about true equality, admitting no discrimination of race, c…"

"I am by no means closing my life story. I expect to live that for years to come. As I read over the chapters of this …"

"the richest gift was the inspiration of seeing what the workers of America were doing for the war. Shipyard workers, …"

"Today in America, the overwhelming majority of the people are not ready for socialism, and so socialism is not the is…"

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"And now, as I near the end of my first eighty-two years, the greatest joy of all is to witness the coming into its ow…"