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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSShow me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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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 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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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