The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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 we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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