Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

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

My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.