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.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men