Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. And unless there is equality (and by equality I mean equal chances for every one to make the most of himself) unless, I say, these equal chances exist, freedom, either of thought, speech, or action, is equally a mockery.

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's rig…

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it. So long as they tramp the streets, wh…

Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere - LIBERTY! Centuries upon centuries of liberty is the only thing that wi…

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations …

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.