It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERSLet social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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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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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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