Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWorkingmen are at the foundation of society.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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