The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and...

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that...

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that...

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull...

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull...