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For Justice Speech - Roberto F. Magon

      Companions:      The old society, the unjust and cruel society that condemns those who work and sweat to all kinds of deprivation, and that rewards the laziness of a few with all the pleasures of life;  this corrupt society that cannot and does not want to guarantee well-being and freedom to all human beings;  This society is crumbling, this society is collapsing, this society is about to disappear;  But now dying, it still has the strength to tear from our ranks, from the ranks of the poor, those brave ones who have made the greatest efforts to overthrow it.      Raúl Palma is a worker, he is disinherited, he is a proletarian who understands that every human being, by the mere fact of coming to life, has the right to satisfy all his needs, and this simple principle of social justice, of human justice , he propagated it relentlessly, in the press, on the platform, everywhere, eager to see his class brothers free from chains.      This was his crime: to open the eyes of the worker

November 11, 1911 Speech - Roberto F. Magon

 Comrades:      Apostles of pacifism; believers of the political action of the proletariat, as the best means to achieve economic emancipation, turn your eyes to Chicago, where four black ditches, in the ground, keep the remains of four martyrs, whose silence is eloquent testimony that  Justice will groan in chains as long as the weapon in the hand of each worker does not shine, and this formidable feeling does not boil in the robust breasts: Rebellion!      The four graves where Spies, Engel, Fisher and Parsons sleep proclaim this truth: "reason must arm itself"; and this other "violence against violence."      Do not cross your arms: do not ask. Asking is the crime of the humble: that is why he is killed! If you have to be killed for asking, it is better to take!      Listen to what those four tombs tell you: “Here we keep the remains of the best of yours. Here, in our dark entrails, sleep four generous men who dreamed of conquering the well-being of humanity by v