The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Mary Heaton VorseI had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.
Mary Heaton Vorse