No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe 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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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