To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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 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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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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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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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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