The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

Kat had already seen the amazing things God had done on her adventure so far, and she could hardly wait for the next chapter.

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

I include Rudy Giuliani here who, in many ways, is more comfortable as a neocon.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.