The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
SAMUEL GOMPERSSo long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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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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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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