The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
SAMUEL GOMPERSOur movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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 labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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