Ralph Chaplin Quotes

• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Believe, Race, World

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng -
  The cowed and the meek -
  Who see the world's great anguish and its
  wrong
  And dare not speak!

  Ralph Chaplin

  Honesty, Lying, Integrity

  "Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin". Book by Ralph Chaplin, 1922.

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• The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

  Ralph Chaplin

  Credit, Facts, Speak

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Men, Mind, Looks

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Blood, Civilization, Names

  Ralph Chaplin (1920). “The Centralia Conspiracy”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Law, Littles, Break

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Men, Honor And Respect, Class

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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