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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 freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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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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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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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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Labor Day is 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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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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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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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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