No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe 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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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