“It is competition that is ruining us. Competition is division, disunion, every man for himself, every man against his brother. the remedy must be in association, cooperation, self-sacrifice for the sake of one another.”

from Cheap Clothes and Nasty, 1849​

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“Here lies your iniquity: you have given the laborer nothing but his daily food—not even his lodgings… his wages—thanks to your competitive system—were beaten down to the minimum on which he could or would work, without the hope or the possibility of saving a farthing.”

from Alton Locke, 1848​

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“Up, up, up and up!
Face your game and play it!
The night is past, behold the sun!
The idols fall, the lie is done!”

from Alton Locke, 1848

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“He that will not live by toil
Has no right on English soil”

from Alton Locke (1848)

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“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

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