No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe 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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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 worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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