Black Coal and Red Bandanas Quotes

“The fighting that ensued recalls a quote attributed to 19th-century capitalist Jay Gould: ‘I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
― Raymond Tyler, Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

“The struggle is long. We’re going up against a vicious system. Each act of resistance shakes and weakens the structures of oppression. But most times, those acts of resistance aren’t enough to bring the entire structure down.”
― Raymond Tyler, Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars