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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 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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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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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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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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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 worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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