Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor
had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday February 11, 1917
From the United Mine Workers Journal: A Tribute to Lincoln
A Poem for Abraham Lincoln by E. Richard Shipp
