What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.