There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

The rangers of the night stay strangers in the eye of time.

The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.