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

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.

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

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

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

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

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