You can't do it unless you organize.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength

There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw

It's not enough to be busy

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

South of Somewhere and north of Nowhere.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.