The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

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

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.

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

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.