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Meridel Le Sueur

Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, 1900, Murray, Iowa – November 14, 1996, Hudson, Wisconsin) was an American writer associated with the proletarian movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born as Meridel Wharton, she assumed the name of her mother's second husband, Arthur Le Sueur, the former Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota.

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Growth is not concerned with itself.

Concerned, Growth

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

Cosmopolites, Culture, Intellectual, People, Word

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

America, Memories, Memory, Suffering, Suffers

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

Doors, Ignorance, People, Remains, Stone, World

They never die, who have the future in them.

Die, Dies, Future, Motivation

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Linear, Patriarchal, Thinking

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

Expanding, Flesh, Movement, Moving, Pregnancy, Sprouting

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

Hard, Hard Times, Inspirational, Quit, Quitting, Times

The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

Bear, Bloodiest, Frost, People, Year, Years

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

Eye, Long, Look, Money, Tonight

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

Deep, Humus, Literature, Our Lives, Spring, Submerged

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Further, Generation, Generations, Lasts, Use

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

Art, Life, Penetrate, Penetrates, People

I am luminous with age.

Age, Luminous

What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone. . . . It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed.

Back, Children, Crisis, Men, Organization, Women

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

Bread, Death, Dream, Love, Spare, Suffering

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Hero, Heroes, History, Human, People

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

Alone, Pears, Ripened, Together, Work