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.
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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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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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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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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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