Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Haywood

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Bill Haywood.
Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Bill Haywood

William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America. During the first two decades of the 20th century, Haywood was involved in several important labor battles, including the Colorado Labor Wars, the Lawrence Textile Strike, and other textile strikes in Massachusetts and New Jersey.

February 4, 1869 - May 18, 1928
A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — © Bill Haywood
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
The mine owners do not find the gold.
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.
Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!
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!
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