No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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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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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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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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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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 worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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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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