Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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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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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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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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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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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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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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 worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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