Mary Elizabeth Lease

(1850–1933) Writer United States

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Mary Elizabeth Lease was a writer from the United States.

Quick Facts About Mary Elizabeth Lease

Born: September 11, 1850
Died: October 29, 1933
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer

About Mary Elizabeth Lease

Mary Elizabeth Lease was an American lecturer, writer, Georgist, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance, but she was best known for her work with the People's Party (Populists).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Lease

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty…

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Aristocracy

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A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the…

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Age

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Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but…

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Bloodhounds

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We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if…

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Company

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Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

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Corn

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The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered…

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Children

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What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

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Corn

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