Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

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.

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.