The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
SAMUEL GOMPERSLabor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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 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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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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