To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
SAMUEL GOMPERSDoing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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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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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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[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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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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So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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