When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

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

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

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

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

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.