There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present... What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person …

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate …

There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose…

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

'You're going to be roped! And you're going to be caged! And, as for your dust speck -- hah! That we shall boil in a hot steaming kettle of Beezle-Nut Oil!'

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.