The present system means joyless drudgery, semi- starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!

Robert Tressell

pen name of Robert Croker, Irish writer

17 April 1870 — 3 February 1911

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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