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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSOur movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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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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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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 trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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