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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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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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

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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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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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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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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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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.

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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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