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Samuel Gompers

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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Actuated Decision Inspire Long Principle Service Spirit Voluntary Wise
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
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
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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Bvaluable Earth Fraternal Independent Men Out Relation Thinking Time
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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Make Man Product Share Show Society Something Working
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
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
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
You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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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Certain Exercise Join Labor Reason Unexplainable Union Worker
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
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
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
To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Beautiful Bright Childhood Happy Manhood More Noble Womanhood
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

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