The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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