I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

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

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

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

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

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.