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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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 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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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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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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