The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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[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.
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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