Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
SAMUEL GOMPERSTo 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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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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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 there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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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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[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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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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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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