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 GOMPERSDoing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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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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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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[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 race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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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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