Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

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.

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.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

The path of your life can change in an instant.

Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

Two quarters doesn't make a trend, but it's a heck of a lot better than none.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.