Joe Hill

"A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read."

"Ill take the shooting. Im used to that. Ive been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again."

"Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?"

"There is powr, there is powr In a band of workingmen. When they stand hand in hand, Thats a powr, thats a powr That must rule in every land — One Industrial Union Grand."

"My will is easy to decide, For there is nothing to divide. My kin dont need to fuss and moan — "Moss does not cling to a rolling stone." My body? — Oh! — If I could choose, I would to ashes it reduce, And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some flowers grow. Perhaps some fading flower then Would come to life and bloom again. This is my last and final will. Good luck to all of you. [Joe Hill]"

"I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward."