What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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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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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[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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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 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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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Time 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.
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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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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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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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