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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.

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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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 are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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