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.
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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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 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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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