Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.