The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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