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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.

Samuel Gompers

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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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 weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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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 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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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