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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…
• Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a…
• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
• The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may…
• Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets…
• Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
• There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor.…
• Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has…
• All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife…
• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is…
• No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

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