To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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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.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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[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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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