To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
SAMUEL GOMPERSDo 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
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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 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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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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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