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.

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

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

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!

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

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

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.