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When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we
will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. we will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to
the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the
meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal
element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops
or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They
have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in
men, than any other association of men.
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The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. The strength of a strong man is a
prideful thing, but the unfortunate thing in life is that strong men do not remain strong. And it is just as true of unions
and labor organizations as is true of men and individuals. And whereas today the craft unions of this country may be able to
stand upon their own feet and like mighty oaks stand before the gale, defy the lightning, yet the day may come when those
organizations will not be able to withstand the lightning and the gale. Now, prepare yourselves by making a contribution to
your less fortunate brethren... Organize the unorganized!
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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 greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better
natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Every wheel in the creation, every mine and every mill;
Fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and
tongues and kindreds.
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Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the
basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is
lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.
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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
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Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do
for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who
suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look
out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may
become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has
never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but
by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself
with food and saw about m...
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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic
of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal
critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they
want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral
one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it
never has and it never will.
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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization
work.
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My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and
say to each other: "We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing."
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I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as
Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American
dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream
of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not
argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and
resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country
where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
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In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the
Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came
for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
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