It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe 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.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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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 race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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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 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.
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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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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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