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...whose lives are easier now because of the labor movement:
Labor is the great producer of wealth: it moves all other causes.
Congressman Daniel Webster, 4/2/1824
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any
other organization 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 man, than the other association of men.
Clarence Darrow, The Railroad Trainman, 1909
Without labor nothing prospers.
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The history of America has been largely created by the deeds of its
working people and their organizations. Nor has this contribution been
confined to raising wages and bettering work conditions; it has been
fundamental to almost every effort to extend and strengthen our
democracy.
William Cahn, labor authority and historian
We insist that labor is entitled to as much respect as property. But our
workers with hand and brain deserve more than respect for their labor.
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