Denis Kearney Born : 1847 Died : April 24, 1907 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Denis Kearney 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 millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. Denis Kearney land race people 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 defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. Denis Kearney hype gold needs We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out. Denis Kearney vote trying history 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 mountain, or in the trackless desert. Denis Kearney hiking men two Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. Denis Kearney men past years 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 honest toil in power. Denis Kearney toil party government To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. Denis Kearney tyrants despair world 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 law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen. Denis Kearney cities law book 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 not rely upon your sympathy and assistance? Denis Kearney rely-upon california sympathy There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. Denis Kearney mexico chinese borders 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 state, the county, and the city with debt. Denis Kearney city corruption government science 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 every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them. Denis Kearney place go work sex 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 a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc. Denis Kearney new me you justice Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too! Denis Kearney boy will place girl 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 be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families. Denis Kearney live die men country
