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.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

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

I was born in revolution.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people