To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
SAMUEL GOMPERSShow 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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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[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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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