Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWhere trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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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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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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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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