Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

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.

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