Occupation: Political Leader Birth: November 5, 1855 Death: October 20, 1926
I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right wher….
As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and tha….
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. T….
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose,….
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created..
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 ….
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 ….
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 have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world..
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation..
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….
The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed..
The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION..
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….
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..
When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks..
I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it..
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 ….
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 ….
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….
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery..