The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
SAMUEL GOMPERSW.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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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 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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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