There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
SAMUEL GOMPERSThere are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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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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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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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 labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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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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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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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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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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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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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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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.
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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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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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