If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

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

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.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

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

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.