Bill Haywood Quotes

• If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

  Bill Haywood

  Hands, Class, Pockets

  50 Copy quote

• If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

  Bill Haywood

  Money, Work, Men

  "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.

  88 Copy quote

• The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

  Bill Haywood

  Gold, Injustice, Mills

  "The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.

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• Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

  Bill Haywood

  Sleep, Eight, Play

  "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p. 147), 1983.

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• The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.

  Bill Haywood

  Eye, Cutting, Long

  "Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson, p. 146, 1983.

  32 Copy quote

• A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

  Bill Haywood

  Struggle, Revolution, Strikes

  20 Copy quote

• To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

  Bill Haywood

  Fables, Christianity, Nonsense

  Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”

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• The mine owners do not find the gold.

  Bill Haywood

  Gold, Owners, Mines

  17 Copy quote

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