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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.

Samuel Gompers

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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Analyse Committed Crime Depend Gret Guise Initiative Matter Social Toiler
You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Bar Iron Man Pig Soul Weight
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Busybodies Dangerous Experiment Ought People Themselves
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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Country Liberty Show Strike
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Capitalist Common Impossible Interest Laborer Struggle
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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Arbitration Believe Found Inside Lamb Lion Morning Umpires
To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Existence Free Make Otherwise Serve Slavery Tyrannies
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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Arsenal Beautiful Book Labor Less More Nature Opportunity Revenge Schoolhouse
You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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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Cut Cutting Hour Increase Long Mission Now Protection Safety Wage Workday Kill Worker
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Against Business Company Crime Fail Failure Operate People Profit Worst
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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Administer Card Election Friend Honest Hostile Indifferent Intelligent Men Negligent Opportunity Party Possession Rebuke Stand Stringling Trade
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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Amn Battle Conflict Connect Degree Holiday Less Man Other Over Power Race
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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Alike Being Come Fullest Human Inspiration Life Open Opportunity Unimportant
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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Arouse Attempt Betterment Bold Compulsion Fact History Man relief Resentment Stand Use
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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Announce Build Communist Community Country Foster International Money Movement Party Red Secret

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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