Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.