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You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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 outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

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 stand alone.

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.

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!

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.