You can only be free if I am free. My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and never will. People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglas , Abolitionist The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.