“She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, all hurrying to and fro, mindless of one another. They brushed by with barely even a glance, stepping down into the busy roads between horse drawn buses and draymen’s carts with such confidence, seemingly oblivious that they could be run down at any moment. Children dodged in and out amongst them, ragamuffins all, some barefoot.” RomanceWomenFictionClassStruggleEnglandHistoricalWorkersInequalityCityManchesterVictorianChild LaborMill Book:The Mill Owner's Son Source: The Mill Owner's Son
“…we must be careful not to do our enemies’ work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator – what logic is this?” ‘Dictator,’ Robert Harris” DictatorRobert Harris Author:Lillian White