I sometimes wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or imbeciles who mean it. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of it's many waters.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. If I were a worker in a factory, the first thing I would do, would be to join a union. All that serves labor serves the nation. There is no America without labor, and to fleece one is to rob the other. While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.