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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Samuel Gompers

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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Abolish Aspire Denied Determine Endure Long Order Right Wrong
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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Announce Build Communist Community Country Foster International Money Movement Party Red Secret
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Against Business Company Crime Fail Failure Operate People Profit Worst
To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Beautiful Bright Childhood Happy Manhood More Noble Womanhood
To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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Choice Condition Determine Hand Must Own Retain Right Under Worker
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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Accompanying Business Business Cycle Challenge Civilization Depression Employment Period Progress Une
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
You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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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Arouse Attempt Betterment Bold Compulsion Fact History Man relief Resentment Stand Use
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
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Children Economic Inequality Este Money Offer Race Vbarbarian
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
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Come Compulsion Ever Gain Lasting
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
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Long Movement Order People Struggle Work
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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Bvaluable Earth Fraternal Independent Men Out Relation Thinking Time

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