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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSYou can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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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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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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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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