My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

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

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

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

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

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