The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.