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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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