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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
"So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date."
"All labour is directed towards producing some effect."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."
"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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