Quote#World
Let us not fail to take advantage of the present opportunity, and let…
Quote byMilly Witkop · 1877–1955
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922).
English (original)
Let us not fail to take advantage of the present opportunity, and let us become familiar with the thought that we may yet be destined to bury this old society, whose history was written with the blood and tears of the wretched poor, to build over its ruins a world of freedom on the unshakable foundations of communal labor and mutual solidarity.
— Milly Witkop
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