A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Power is the flower of organization.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.