Jack London Quotes

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

Workers! Leave the Socialist Party. It is your enemy and ours.

Every capitalist is your enemy. Every working man is your friend.

Harmony? No! Class war! Hatred to the death for the criminal bourgeoisie!

The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defense of their livelihood.

The masses have never believed in sophisms taught by economists, uttered more to confirm exploiters in their rights than to convert the exploited!

To the workman we appeal by the memory and traditions of his own sufferings and wrongs to be vigilant to avoid the great guilt of inflicting upon his fellow-citizens the injustice from which he has himself escaped.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.