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.

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

I have always advised men to read

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

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.

Freedom for the working class!