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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .

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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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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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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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