You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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