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Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?

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Don't waste any time mourning — organize!

I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.

If the workers took a notion
They could stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingmen.
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land —
One Industrial Union Grand.

There is power in a Union (1913)

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