“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”
Cited in: Kenneth G. Alfers (1993) America's second century: readings in United States history since 1877. p. 43
August Vincent Theodor Spies war Chefredakteur und Herausgeber der sozialistischen Arbeiter-Zeitung und ein Sprecher der US-amerikanischen Arbeiterbewegung in Chicago. Wikipedia
“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”
Cited in: Kenneth G. Alfers (1993) America's second century: readings in United States history since 1877. p. 43
Spies (1887 cited in: Lucy Eldine Parsons, August Vincent Theodore Spies (1969) Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists. p. 22
Translated from Swedish: http://www.kommunisterna.org/politik/texter/socialismens-lardomar/riv-galgarna