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

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

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

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

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.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

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.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.