Force and violence come from the ruling class and not from the people. - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

I feel that many of our critics are people who stayed at home in bed while we were doing the hard work of the strike.

The employers have a full view of your army. You have no view of their army and can only guess at their condition.

This is the agitator's work, this continual activity. And we lay awake many nights trying to think of something more we could give them to do. I remember one night in Lawrence none of us slept. The strike spirit was in danger of waning for lack of action. And I remember Bill Haywood said finally, "Let's get a picket line out in Essex street. Get every striker to put a little red ribbon on and walk up and down and show that the strike is not broken." A few days later the suggestion was carried out, and when they got out of their homes and saw this great body that they were, they had renewed strength and renewed energy which carried them along for many weeks more in the strike.