To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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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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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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