The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

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.

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

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

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