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

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.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

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

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

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

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser

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

Because it's so hard to be kind to the world when all you've ever felt is hate.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

We have to remember in that Bloomberg poll, strong Republican support for [Donald ]Trump's proposal, but the country at large - strong opposition to that support.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.