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.
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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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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 labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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