How much to be pitied are people who have never known the solidarity of human hearts and souls! (1914 letter, p282) - Catherine Breshkovsky

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How much to be pitied are people who have never known the solidarity of human hearts and souls! (1914 letter, p282)

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About Catherine Breshkovsky

Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), better known as Catherine Breshkovsky, was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement, a Narodnik, and later one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. She has been described as Russia's first female political prisoner. She spent over four decades in prison and Siberian exile for peaceful opposition to Tsarism, acquiring, in her latter years, international stature as a political prisoner. Also popularly known as 'babushka', Breshkovsky was the grandmother of the Russian Revolution.

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Alternative Names: Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskai︢a︡ Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya Yekaterina Verigo

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The party of progress in Russia is the more interested in having friends in all other countries, because it sees that the time of deliverance for the Russian people is coming nearer and nearer. All classes of the population are alike discontented with autocracy, all are longing to be freed from the yoke of despotism, and perhaps the happy day of our country's deliverance is not far away.

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It is necessary to illuminate, to enlighten the minds of a nation that is ready to grasp knowledge; a nation that has been forcibly deprived of all teaching. For there are only a few thousand fortunate persons who were able to get an education in the small number of schools that did not in any way meet the needs of a population of 170,000,000.

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