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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Samuel Gompers

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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Inspiration Life Live Man Opportunity Possible Woman Wonderful
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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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Certain Exercise Join Labor Reason Unexplainable Union Worker
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 worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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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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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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Convey Life New Right Say Thing Through Unexpected Wrong
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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Citizen Country Know People World
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 periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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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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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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Alike Being Come Fullest Human Inspiration Life Open Opportunity Unimportant
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Firmly Most Organization People Respect Right Trade Union
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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Busybodies Dangerous Experiment Ought People Themselves
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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.
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