[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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