“There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They ...” — William Tecumseh Sherman Quote

“There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.”

“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”

“I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.”

“But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.”

“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.”