"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Only because you toiled and wept."
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"The Thinker (On Rodin's Statue)" in Industrial Worker, vol. 4, no. 18 (July 25, 1912) p. 6; reprinted in Arrows In the Gale (Riverside, CT: Hillacre Bookhouse, 1914) p. 28
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Arturo Giovannitti
Arturo M. Giovannitti (January 7, 1884 – December 31, 1959) was an Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist, and poet. He is best remembered as one of the principal organizers of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike and as a defendant in a celebrated trial caused by that event.
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