The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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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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