The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.

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.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.