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

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.