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.

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

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

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.

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

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.

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.