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

I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.