The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
SAMUEL GOMPERSOur movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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