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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

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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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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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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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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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 lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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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