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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor. Think of the thousands who are killed every year and there is no redress for it. We will fight until the mines are made secure and human life valued more than props. Look things in the face. Don't' fear a governor; don't fear anybody. You pay the governor; he has the right to protect you. You are the biggest part of the population in the state. You create its wealth, so I say, let the fight go on; if nobody else will keep on, I will.

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.