Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
SAMUEL GOMPERSYou can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
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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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