No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

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.

All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

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.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me