Famous quotes containing the words peasant, popular and/or union:
“The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
—William Cowper (17311800)
“Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”
—James Connolly (18701916)