To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
SAMUEL GOMPERSNo lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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 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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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