Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
SAMUEL GOMPERSLabor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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