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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSShow me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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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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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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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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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