My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.

Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.