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

But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

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.

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

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

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.