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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You must stand for free speech in the streets.