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.
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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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