There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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 trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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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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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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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