I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.