"Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man."
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"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."
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"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."
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"Everybody works but the vacant lot"
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"That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man."
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"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes."
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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."
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"At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment."
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"As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others."
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"Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges."
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"He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages."
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"I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school."
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"The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor."
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"How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime."
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"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
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"God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other."
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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
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"The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act."
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"If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free."
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"For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong."
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