The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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 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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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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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[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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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