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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 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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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