There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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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 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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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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