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Mary Elizabeth Lease Biography

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Mary Elizabeth Lease, born on September 11, 1850, in Kansas, USA, and died on October 29, 1933. She was a writer known for her activities in the fields of women's rights and farmers' rights.

People Ifs Years Children Littles Said Country States Home Government Force United Common Pay Company United States Masters Politician Slave Debt Statistics Loan Monopoly Sharks

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.”

Needs Hell Raises Farmers Corn

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.”

Ifs Want Home Government Force Pay Company Debt Loan Sharks Foreclosure

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.”

People Country Government Common Streets Masters Wall Slave Monopoly Bourgeoisie Oligarchy Bloodhounds

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."”

Knows Writing Home Age Party Empty Died Old Age Stomach Falsehood Epitaph Ragged Empty Stomach

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.”

Hell Corn Corny Kansas Raising Hell

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.”

People Two Effort Enemy Progress Gold Organized Deceiving Royalty Hype Aristocracy

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

About the Author

Born: September 11, 1850
Died: October 29, 1933
Known for: Writer
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