There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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[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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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