Lena Morrow Lewis Quotes

the new industrial processes which the capitalist system gave the world necessitated the education and mental training of the workers in order that they might be fit and efficient wealth producers. Capitalism therefore created the economic or material reasons far the need of the great mass of the workers to be educated: It "democratized" education.

The ethics of capitalism will disappear with the passing of the institution of private property.

(I) have been an interested student of the labor and Socialist movements for more than 30 years.

For a number of years I also believed that political bondage was the cause of many of the ills endured by those of my own sex; until I discovered that the man without a job was about as badly off as the woman without a ballot. In fact, a little worse, for we can live without voting but we cannot live without eating.

Only as the workers have knowledge and intelligence can they solve the problem of their own political and industrial freedom.

Education of the workers for the benefit of the capitalist class means gain and profit only for the few, the upper class of to-day. Education of the workers for the benefit of the working class means gain and profit for the working class and ultimately for the whole human race.

Let us ever remember that knowledge is power!