It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWorkingmen are at the foundation of society.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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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 lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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 may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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