Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

- Rose Pastor Stokes

Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe f…

- Rose Pastor Stokes

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

- Rose Pastor Stokes

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that…

- Rose Pastor Stokes

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

- Rose Pastor Stokes

Whether you believe in a creed, or what you call religion, or not, there is something in Socialism that must move you. How can you love God, whom you…

- Rose Pastor Stokes

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

- Rose Pastor Stokes

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

- Rose Pastor Stokes