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Robert Green Ingersoll

"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."

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Amber Hurdle

"He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled."

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"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage."

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"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."

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"Labor gives birth to ideas."

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"Without labor nothing prospers."

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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

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"Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions."

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"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."

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"The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor."

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"Free trade should not mean free labor."

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"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"There is no slavery but ignorance."
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"I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
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"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science? Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?"
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Robert Green Ingersoll
"A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others."
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"No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."
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"Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous."
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