Lucy Parsons
Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons (born c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was an American labor organizer and radical socialist and anarchist communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator.
Read more about Lucy Parsons: Early Life, Career As Activist, Death, Conflict With Emma Goldman, Legacy, Tributes and Memorials
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“She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and oh,
The difference to me!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)