[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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSIt is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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 free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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