Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
SAMUEL GOMPERSAll other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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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 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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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.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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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 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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