[Annie Besant by Annie Besant]@TWC D-Link bookAnnie Besant CHAPTER XIV 6/46
Into this work came Herbert Burrows, who had joined hands with me over the Trafalgar Square defence, and who wrote some noble articles in the _Link_.
A man loving the people with passionate devotion, hating oppression and injustice with equal passion, working himself with remorseless energy, breaking his heart over wrongs he could not remedy.
His whole character once came out in a sentence when he was lying delirious and thought himself dying: "Tell the people how I have loved them always." In our crusade for the poor we worked for the dockers." To-morrow morning, in London alone 20,000 to 25,000 adult men," wrote Sidney Webb, "will fight like savages for permission to labour in the docks for 4d.
an hour, and one-third of them will fight in vain, and be turned workless away." We worked for children's dinners.
"If we insist on these children being educated, is it not necessary that they shall be fed? If not, we waste on them knowledge they cannot assimilate, and torture many of them to death.
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