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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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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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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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[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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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