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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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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
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
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
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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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
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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Announce Build Communist Community Country Foster International Money Movement Party Red Secret
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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Inspiration Life Live Man Opportunity Possible Woman Wonderful
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
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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Cut Cutting Hour Increase Long Mission Now Protection Safety Wage Workday Kill Worker
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
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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Choice Condition Determine Hand Must Own Retain Right Under Worker
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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Economic Movement Organization Organized Power Reality Represent Trade Worker
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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Convey Life New Right Say Thing Through Unexpected Wrong
The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Citizen Country Know People World

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