Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERSTime 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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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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 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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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