Baron of Rio Branco

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    I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
    William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883–1962)

    I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
    William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883–1962)

    I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)