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.

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

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

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.

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

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.