Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off … - Samuel Gompers

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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

Samuel Gompers

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 improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

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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.

Beautiful, Bright, Happy, Manhood, Revenge, Teaching

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 day.

Day, Hands, Lay, Men, Voice

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

Firmly, Organization, People, Respect, Rights, Unions

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 work.

Choices, Conditions, Hands, Under, Workers

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 become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Citizens, Independent, Men, Thinking