I have proved the right of the poor; I have shown the usurpation of the rich.

I demand justice; it is not my business to execute the sentence.

If it should be argued--in order to prolong for a few years an illegitimate privilege--that it is not enough to demonstrate equality, that it is necessary also to organize it, and above all to establish it peacefully, I might reply: The welfare of the oppressed is of more importance than official composure.

Equality of conditions is a natural law upon which public economy and jurisprudence are based.

The right to labor, and the principle of equal distribution of wealth, cannot give way to the anxieties of power.