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

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.

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

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

Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.

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.

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