Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.