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.

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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

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.

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

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.