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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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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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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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Come Compulsion Ever Gain Lasting
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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 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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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