You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
SAMUEL GOMPERSWhere trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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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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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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 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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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