Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.