Occupation: Union Organizer Birth: May 1, 1837 Death: November 30, 1930
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time..
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong..
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!.
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must st….
No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!.
You must stand for free speech in the streets..
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair s….
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We mus….
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes..
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts..
I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser.
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 b….
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of ref….
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not….
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 kill….
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies..