Arturo Giovannitti

thumb| Arturo M. Giovannitti (January 7, 1884 – December 31, 1959) was an Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist, and poet. He is best remembered as one of the principal organizers of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike and as a defendant in a celebrated trial caused by that event. Quotes Aye, think! Since time and life began,  Your mind has only feared and slept;Of all the beasts they called you man  Only because you toiled and wept. "The Thinker (On Rodin's Statue)" in Industrial Worker, vol. 4, no. 18 (July 25, 1912) p. 6; reprinted in Arrows In the Gale (Riverside, CT: Hillacre Bookhouse, 1914) p. 28 External links Category:1884 births Category:1959 deaths Category:Socialists from the United States Category:Activists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:Immigrants to the United States