Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.
Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie. '