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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

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Time 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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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 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 worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

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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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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 27th, 1850

Died: December 13th, 1924

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