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
SAMUEL GOMPERSSo long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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 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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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