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Joe Hill

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If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.


— Joe Hill


#sarcasm #humor

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.


— Joe Hill


#love

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.


— Joe Hill


#business

Love requires Context.


— Joe Hill


#love

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.


— Joe Hill


#imagination

She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.


— Joe Hill


#love

Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.


— Joe Hill


#inspirational

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.


— Joe Hill


#die #i #like #mourning #organize

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.


— Joe Hill


#get #hay #live #pie #pray

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.


— Joe Hill


#could #every #mighty #notion #ocean






About Joe Hill

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Did you know about Joe Hill?

Other notable songs written by Hill include "The Tramp" "There is Power in a Union" "The Rebel Girl" and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab". IWW
By this time using the name Joe or Joseph Hillstrom (possibly because of anti-union blacklisting) he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies around 1910 when working on the docks in San Pedro California. Early life
Joel Emmanuel Hägglund was born 1879 in Gävle (then called Gefle) a city in the province of Gästrikland Sweden.

Hill was convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. In a recently discovered letter Erickson confirmed her relationship with the two men and the rivalry between them. According to the biography Joe Hill and his friend and fellow countryman Otto Appelquist were rivals for the attention of twenty-year-old Hilda Erickson a member of the family with whom the two men were lodging.

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