Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. ….

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of million….

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militi….

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be ….

Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but….

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 ….

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed..

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

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free..

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe ….

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

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

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of….

I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of ….

They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too m….

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

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION..

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

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

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

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation la….