Emma Goldman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "When the Panic of 1893 struck in the following year, the United States suffered one of its worst economic crises ever. By year's end, the unemployment rate was higher than twenty percent,[47] and 'hunger demonstrations' sometimes gave way to riots. Goldman began speaking to crowds of frustrated men and women in New York. On August 21, she spoke to a crowd of nearly 3,000 people in Union Square, where she encouraged unemployed workers to take immediate action. Her exact words are unclear: undercover agents insist she ordered the crowd to 'take everything�...�by force',[48] while Goldman later recounted this message: 'Well then, demonstrate before the palaces of the rich; demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread.'[49] Later in court, Detective-Sergeant Charles Jacobs offered yet another version of her speech.[50]
Goldman (shown here in Union Square, New York in 1916) urged unemployed workers to take direct action rather than depend on charity or government aid.
A week later she was arrested in Philadelphia and returned to New York City for trial, charged with 'inciting to riot'.[51] During the train ride, Jacobs offered to drop the charges against her if she would inform on other radicals in the area"
I strongly suggest that people read her biography (2 volumes) maybe be too monumental for Jon Stewart to read through. It is necessary to stop promoting political fears of going beyond the bipartisan US , although it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate one party from another. And maybe the US political machinery is a decorum, and the two party should unite to become the royalists.
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