Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people

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