[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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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 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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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