The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERSShow me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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 right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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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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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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