Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

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.

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 issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.