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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

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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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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 weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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 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 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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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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