Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Born: May 1, 1847
Died: September 28, 1903 (aged 56)
Bio: Henry Demarest Lloyd was a 19th-century American progressive political activist and pioneer muckraking journalist. He is best remembered for his exposés of the Standard Oil Company, which were written before Ida M.
Known for:
- Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)
- Lords Of Industry
- Mazzini, And Other Essays
- A strike of millionaires against miners (1890)
- A Country Without Strikes (1900)