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.
SAMUEL GOMPERSW.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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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 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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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