The Class Which Has The Power To

Chicago Is The Product Of Modern Capitalism, And, Like Other Great Commercial Centers, Is Unfit For Human Habitation.

I Do Not Want You To Follow Me Or Anyone Else; If You Are Looking For A Moses To Lead You Out Of This Capitalist Wilderness, You Will Stay Right Where You Are. I Would Not Lead You Into The Promised Land If I Could, Because If I Led You In, Some One Else Would Lead You Out.

The People Can Have Anything They Want, The Only Problem Is They Do Not Want Anything.

Your Honor, Years Ago I Recognized My Kinship With All Living Beings, And I Made Up My Mind That I Was Not One Bit Better Than The Meanest On Earth. I Said Then, And I Say Now, That While There Is A Lower Class, I Am In It, And While There Is A Criminal Element I Am Of It, And While There Is A Soul In Prison, I Am Not Free.

Every One Of The Aristocratic Conspirators And Would-be Murderers Claims To Be An Arch-patriot; Every One Of Them Insists That The War Is Being Waged To Make The World Safe For Democracy. What Humbug! What Rot! What False Pretense! These... Tyrants, These Red-handed Robbers And Murderers, The "patriots," While The Men Who Have The Courage To Stand Face To Face With Them, Speak The Truth, And Fight For Their Exploited Victims - They Are [called] The Disloyalists And Traitors. If This Be True, I Want To Take My Place Side By Side With The Traitors In This Fight.