When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

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

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

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

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.