It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

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.

Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.