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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

Samuel Gompers

All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Come Compulsion Ever Gain Lasting
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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Country Liberty Show Strike
Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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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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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 are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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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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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 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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Organized Union
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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