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

Samuel Gompers

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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Art Day Dead Devoted Labor Living Men Nation No Race
The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Citizen Country Know People World
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Dangerous Done Experiment Fads Ought People Themselves
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Against Business Company Crime Fail Failure Operate People Profit Worst
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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Employment Find Hour Long Seek Work
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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Been Freedom Granted Order People Please Press Say Speech Thing
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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Cent Devil Everything Hand Lay Man Million Poor Ten Voice
In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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Analyse Committed Crime Depend Gret Guise Initiative Matter Social Toiler
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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Bodies Busy Moral Peril Pretense Public Social Under Welfare
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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Bvaluable Earth Fraternal Independent Men Out Relation Thinking Time
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Busybodies Dangerous Experiment Ought People Themselves
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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Abolish Aspire Denied Determine Endure Long Order Right Wrong
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Firmly Most Organization People Respect Right Trade 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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Arouse Attempt Betterment Bold Compulsion Fact History Man relief Resentment Stand Use
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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Actuated Decision Inspire Long Principle Service Spirit Voluntary Wise
You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Bar Iron Man Pig Soul Weight

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