Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

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

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.