Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS[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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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