Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.