Our words-our lives-our pains-nothing! The taking of our lives-lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler-all! That last moment belongs to us-that agony is our triumph.

Never in our full life we could have hoped to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as we now do by accident. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. Strong, a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance, who visited Vanzetti in prison in May 1927, three months before his execution.

The lyrics for 'Here's to You' make use of a statement attributed to Vanzetti by Philip D. The consensus of critical opinion has since concluded that the ruling was influenced by bias against Sacco and Vanzetti's anarchist political beliefs rather than being based on any proof that they committed the robbery and murders of which they were accused. The song is a tribute to two anarchists of Italian origin, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were sentenced to death by a United States court in the 1920s for the murder of a payroll clerk and a guard.

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