Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.