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.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

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

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

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.