“The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.”

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.

You can’t do it unless you organize.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

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

W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.

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

Workingmen are at the foundation of society.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.

But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.

You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.

He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.