You can't do it unless you organize..

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 w….

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty..

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

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 ….

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….

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion..

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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 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,….

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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