Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.
You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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.
When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.
I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.
For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.