Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

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 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.

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

I have always advised men to read

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

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