Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
SAMUEL GOMPERSTime is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
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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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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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[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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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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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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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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