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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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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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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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