California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

A life worth living is a life search for joy.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.