Denis Kearney Quotes

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• I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of…
• A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren…
• To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for…
• We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put…
• Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
• We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill him out.
• We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not…
• There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
• They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty…
• California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we…
• They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the…
• They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in…
• Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
• We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need…
• As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add…

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