Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.