It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests..

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too long denied to which we do not a….

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion..

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 impr….

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

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever oppo….

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 gree….

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 ….

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insura….

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,….

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 ….

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment..

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce..

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upo….

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies det….

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long..

Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers ….

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 beco….

Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I wil….

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 p….

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunitie….