To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe 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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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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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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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