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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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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 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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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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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