To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWorkingmen are at the foundation of society.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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 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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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 labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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