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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSLabor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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