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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.

Samuel Gompers

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Come Compulsion Ever Gain Lasting
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
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Firmly Most Organization People Respect Right Trade Union
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Article Commerce Commodity Human Being Labor
Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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Bodies Busy Moral Peril Pretense Public Social Under Welfare
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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Employment Find Hour Long Seek Work
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Long Movement Order People Struggle Work
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
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
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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Cent Devil Everything Hand Lay Man Million Poor Ten Voice
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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Choice Condition Determine Hand Must Own Retain Right Under Worker
You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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
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
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.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Convey Life New Right Say Thing Through Unexpected Wrong
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

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