- Nicola Sacco: You speak of dollars and cents, sir. Let's talk about millions of dollars. If you talk about a manager of industry or the head of a bank who donates money to a university, everybody says, "What a great man he is!" But I have worked thirteen years in this free country, doing what I've been told. I've worked like a slave and I still don't own anything, not a single dollar. Here, all you hear is, "Passport, passport!" But when I went to the consulate to organize my journey back to be repatriated, I didn't even have money to pay for the trip! After thirteen years, I would return to my homeland with nothing, just like I started.
- Bartolomeo Vanzetti: Your society is all built on violence. We want to destroy it. Having to beg for bread is violence. Millions of people are hungry and poor. That is violence. Money is violence. War is. Even fear of dying. We all have it. Every day. If you really think about it, it's violence.