There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
SAMUEL GOMPERS[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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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 trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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