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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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...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

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

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

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...

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor