All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWe 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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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[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.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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