The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

You can't do it unless you organize.

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.