Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
SAMUEL GOMPERSTo make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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 trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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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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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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