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we're all union people, only we don't seem to remember it. This land is one big union, and us children were taught very early that united we stand and divided we fall, and that's just what we girls are demanding—the right to be united.
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Theresa Serber Malkiel (The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker: A Story of the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike in New York)