Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThere is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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 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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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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