Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
SAMUEL GOMPERSTo make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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