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.

When a man puts a pistol to my head and tells me to deliver, there is no arbitration.

All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day . . . is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.