The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a littl — Joe Hill, The Fireman
The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a littl — Joe Hill, The Fireman
The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a littl — Joe Hill, The Fireman
The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a littl — Joe Hill, The Fireman
The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a littl — Joe Hill, The Fireman
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The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did ’em.

— Joe Hill, The Fireman
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