What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

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.

charity Purify your heart and makes you lion.

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.