Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
SAMUEL GOMPERSTo free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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