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Samuel Gompers

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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
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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