You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
SAMUEL GOMPERSYou can’t do it unless you organize.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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 are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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