The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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