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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.

Samuel Gompers

No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Alike Being Come Fullest Human Inspiration Life Open Opportunity Unimportant
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
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Long Movement Order People Struggle Work
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
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
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
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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Certain Exercise Join Labor Reason Unexplainable Union Worker
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 right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Convey Life New Right Say Thing Through Unexpected Wrong
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
The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Citizen Country Know People World
Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Endeavor Foundation Men Share Society Working
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Children Economic Inequality Este Money Offer Race Vbarbarian
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
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
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Capitalist Common Impossible Interest Laborer Struggle

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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