"Until my imprisonment I had believed that except for Albert Parsons, Dyer D. Lum, Voltairine de Cleyre, and a few others America was barren of idealists. Her men and women cared only for material acquisitions, I had thought. Swinton's account of the liberty-loving people who had been and still were in every struggle against oppression changed my superficial judgment. John Swinton made me see that Americans, once aroused, were as capable of idealism and sacrifice as my Russian heroes and heroines. I left the Swintons with a new faith in the possibilities of America."
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Journalists from the United StatesImmigrants to the United StatesOrators from the United StatesPublishers from the United StatesJournalists from Scotland
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Emma Goldman, Living My Life (1931)
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John Swinton
John Swinton (* 12. December 1829 in Scotland; †15. December 1901 in Brooklyn Heights, New York) was a Scottish-American journalist, newspaper publisher, and orator.
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