Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
I was born in revolution.
I’m not afraid of the press or the Militia.
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.