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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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 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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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