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.

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.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

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

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

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