To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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 labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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