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  • Friends, tomorrow morning I am sure that you will read the report that a meeting took place on the East Side attended by foreigners, by workmen, and illkempt, poorly washed people of the East Side -- foreigners who are being jeered at the present time in this country, foreigners who are being ridiculed because they have an idea.

    Speech Against Conscription And War 1917

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