My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
I have always advised men to read
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
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.