<nowiki>[The labor movement is]</nowiki> a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with… - Samuel Gompers

What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.