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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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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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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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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 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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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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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