You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

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.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

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