I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.