Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

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.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

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

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

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.