Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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