All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERSLet social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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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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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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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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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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