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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.

Samuel Gompers

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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Make Man Product Share Show Society Something Working
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
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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Country Liberty Show Strike
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Come Compulsion Ever Gain Lasting
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Article Commerce Commodity Human Being Labor
Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Endeavor Foundation Men Share Society Working
You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Bar Iron Man Pig Soul Weight
You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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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Actuated Decision Inspire Long Principle Service Spirit Voluntary Wise
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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Employment Find Hour Long Seek Work
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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Arsenal Beautiful Book Labor Less More Nature Opportunity Revenge Schoolhouse
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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Been Freedom Granted Order People Please Press Say Speech Thing
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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Cut Cutting Hour Increase Long Mission Now Protection Safety Wage Workday Kill Worker
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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Analyse Committed Crime Depend Gret Guise Initiative Matter Social Toiler
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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Cent Devil Everything Hand Lay Man Million Poor Ten Voice
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

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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