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 Day . . . is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. |
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. |
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. |
Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. |
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. |
Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. |
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. |
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. |
The day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed ... that the workers of our day lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it. |
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. |
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. |
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit |
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. |
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. |
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. |