It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERSOur movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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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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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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