[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.
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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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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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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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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