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 hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

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.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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

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